Supreme Court Judge lets Georgia’s abortion law stand amid state challenge | apartment

ATLANTA — A Fulton County Superior Court judge said Monday the state can continue to enforce Georgia’s new abortion law while a challenge to the law makes its way through the courts.

Abortion rights advocates and providers asked Judge Robert McBurney in a hearing last week to grant an injunction that would block the recently enacted law banning most abortions once a doctor can detect fetal heart activity, typically about six weeks after it begins of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant.

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