A coalition comprised of organizations including SisterSong Women of Color, Feminist Women’s Health Center, and Planned Parenthood Southeast filed a lawsuit on Friday against Georgia’s government officials.
The complaint explains that House Bill 481 “bans practically all abortions,” and “criminalize[s] abortion from the earliest stages of pregnancy.” This is in conflict with Roe v. Wade, which refused to criminalize pre-viability abortion.
Georgia’s legislature is attempting to arbitrarily define embryonic cardiac activity as a threshold for abortion access. Cardiac activity typically develops around the six-week mark, when many people are just learning they are pregnant.
