Georgia fetal heartbeat law takes effect after federal court ruling aleteia.org
Unborn human lives in the state of Georgia are now legally protected once a heartbeat can be detected.
A federal court on Wednesday allowed the state’s fetal heartbeat law, House Bill 481, to go into effect, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month overturning Roe v. Wade.
The Georgia law had been blocked by courts since its enactment in 2019, but since the Supreme Court ruled in its June 24 Dobbs v. Jackson decision that there is no constitutional basis for a right to abortion, a three judge panel of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that the heartbeat law be allowed to take effect…
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