Abortion ban overturned in Georgia as a result of freedom consists of management over our our bodies

This is a big deal in the fight for basic human rights after the overturn of Roe allowed states to impose cruel and deadly abortion bans against women and girls.

Georgia's 2019 six-week abortion ban, which went into effect in 2022, was overturned today by a Fulton County judge, meaning the Peach State's abortion ban can no longer be enforced. Clinics can now resume basic care.

Fulton County Chief Judge Robert McBurney ordered abortions to be regulated as before, which the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said “means the procedure will be permitted again until approximately 22 weeks of pregnancy.”

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“A review of our higher courts' interpretations of 'freedom' shows that freedom in Georgia includes, in its meaning, its protections and its bundle of rights, a woman's power to control her own body.” “Decide what with and in it, and reject government interference in their health care decisions,” McBurney ruled. “However, this power is not unlimited. When a fetus growing inside a woman becomes viable, when society can assume the care and responsibility for that separate life, then and only then can society intervene.”

Amnesty International says abortion is a human right and specifically mentions freedom: “Rights to liberty and security of person: protection against arbitrary and unjust detention and unjust state intervene in the life of the individual, including with regard to decisions related to pregnancy and family life .” Criminal abortion laws increase fear of seeking an abortion and emergency services for pregnancy-related complications, including those due to miscarriage, due to fear of incarceration. “Criminalizing abortion forces pregnant women to undergo unsafe abortions and violates their rights to personal safety and physical integrity.”

Georgia's abortion ban has already been blamed for the preventable death, or perhaps even murder, of a young mother. ProPublica states: “…ProPublica has received reports confirming that at least two women have already died because they were unable to access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state. There are almost certainly others.”

Abortion bans in Texas and other states have also failed to protect the health, freedom and privacy of everyone who can become pregnant.

Abortion care is health care. Abortion is a human right. It is a private matter that has nothing to do with the state.

A federal law is necessary to protect pregnant people in this country from the cruelty that so often accompanies self-righteousness, because these people will keep trying until they are stopped, even though they are now the murderers they pretend to be accuse others of being callous and ignorant.

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