ATLANTA -- Nearly a year ago, women across the country learned they no longer had a guaranteed right to get an abortion if they wanted. And in Georgia, it meant it was only a matter of time until access was vastly limited.
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, decided there is no constitutional right to abortion when it ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning a nearly 50-year-old decision saying the opposite.
Weeks later, a federal appeals court allowed a Georgia law to take effect that bans most abortions once a doctor can detect fetal cardiac activity, typically about six weeks into a pregnancy and before many know they are pregnant.
