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1 Quinn Yeargain, Where Abortion Litigation in Georgia Stands: Last Year the Georgia Supreme Court Rejected One Challenge to a Six-Week Abortion Ban, but Additional State Constitutional Challenges Continue to Wind through the Lower Courts [1] (2024)

handle is hein.peggy/aborligtgeo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: rSTATECOURTREPORTj S~iT~ JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION Where Abortion Litigation in Georgia Stands Last year the Georgia Supreme Court rejected one challenge to a six-week abortion ban, but additional state constitutional challenges continue to wind through the lower courts. By Quinn Yeargain Published: January 12, 2024 Last Updated: October 1, 2024 Georgia UPDATE: On remand from the Georgia Supreme Court, the trial courtstruck the state's six-week abortion ban for violating Georgia's due process clause. The liberty and privacy rights protected by that clause, the court ruled, include the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices up to the point of viability. The trial court also found that an exception for medical emergencies that are only physical in nature, not mental health-related, independently violates the state's equal protection