ATLANTA — Attorneys representing Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday asked the Georgia Supreme Court to reverse a Superior Court ruling released earlier this week that blocked enforcement of the state’s anti-abortion law.
Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on Tuesday ordered the state to no longer enforce the 2019 law, which banned most abortions once fetal cardiac activity could be detected, typically at about six weeks into a pregnancy and before many know they are pregnant. The law had been in effect in Georgia since July.
McBurney’s order said abortions must be regulated as they were before Georgia’s 2019 law took effect — meaning the procedure is again allowed up until about 22 weeks of pregnancy.
