"While the State’s interest in protecting 'unborn' life is compelling, until that life can be sustained *by the State* -- and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State’s work -- the balance of rights favors the woman."

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Georgia’s heartbeat bill struck down, full ruling embedded in article

Judge strikes down Georgia’s abortion ban

Procedure is now allowed once a doctor detects a fetal heartbeat.

"While the State’s interest in protecting 'unborn' life is compelling, until that life can be sustained *by the State* -- and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State’s work -- the balance of rights favors the woman." -- Good and about time !

"Women are not some piece of collectively owned property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote". Damn.

That sentence is perfect.

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The only thing I'm qualified to add is that these are the words of the same Judge McBurney who supervised the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump, though he's not the trial judge. This CNN profile shows this is not the first Georgia abortion ban he's struck down www.cnn.com/2023/08/14/p...

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A Fulton County Superior Court judge who has presided over key parts of the Georgia probe against former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election results in the Peach State has demon...

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Any logically reasoned balancing of rights will favor women before fetal viability That's how we ended up where we did under Roe

For anyone even vaguely concerned about the states rights to control people, for anyone concerned about freedom at all, this should be fucking obvious

Interesting! Since a successful carriage to term requires actively doing things, it's forced, uncompensated labor. Yeah that creeps right up on the 13th Amendment, doesn't it? Not new intellectual ground, I think, but displayed prominently here.