Judge denies state’s request to delay trial over Georgia’s heartbeat abortion law – WSB-TV Channel 2

ATLANTA — A Superior Court docket choose has dominated that there is no such thing as a have to delay the upcoming trial over the state’s heartbeat abortion legislation.

The legislation says it’s unlawful to have an abortion or to offer one after six weeks of being pregnant normally.

Gov. Brian Kemp originally signed H.B. 481 into law in 2019. The ACLU challenged it nearly instantly and received.

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade, and returned choices on the legality of abortions again to the states.

In early August, the eleventh Circuit Court docket of Appeals ruled that the law was constitutional and ordered a lower court to reinstate it.

Georgia abortion suppliers and advocates then filed a lawsuit difficult the ban in Fulton County Superior Court docket, arguing the ban was void from the beginning as a result of it violates federal constitutional precedent and due to Georgia’s right-to-privacy legal guidelines.

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Advocates additionally requested for a brief injunction in opposition to the legislation till the case might go to trial, however the choose later denied that request.

The state has since requested the choose to both cancel or delay the trial, however that movement was denied on Wednesday.

“The State has provided 4 causes for this ‘cancellation,’ which might be summarized as ‘We’re actually busy with different issues,’ ‘There are not any info in dispute,’ ‘We don’t know what info are in dispute,’ and ‘You possibly can’t do what you are attempting to do.’ The Court docket’s response, detailed under, might be summarized as ‘Who isn’t?,’ ‘There are,’ ‘You do,’ and ‘I can,’” the choose’s ruling mentioned. “The Court docket finds that this schedule is each workable and affordable, given the ability, data, and sources already deployed and out there to either side.”

As of proper now, the case is scheduled to go to trial on Oct. 24.

A number of metro Atlanta district attorneys have informed Channel 2 Motion Information that they won’t prosecute girls and medical doctors concerned with abortion procedures.

District attorneys in DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Douglas, Clarke and Oconee counties have made related pledges. Between these six counties, that’s practically a 3rd of all Georgians who could be exempt.

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