A Georgia judge has struck down the state’s abortion law, which took effect in 2022 and effectively prohibited abortions beyond about six weeks of pregnancy.
If you look at the ruling, the judge went in HARD:
*Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote. Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, even taking into consideration whatever bundle of rights the not-yet-viable fetus may have.
And:
For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.
While the State’s interest in protecting “unborn” life is compelling, until that life can be sustained by the State – and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State’s work – the balance of rights favors the woman.
If you look at the ruling, the judge went in HARD:
And:
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The literal hero we need right now.
This bits great too:
Beautiful. Thank you.
Sounds like a good judge.
Holy crap that’s amazing!