Georgia Office of the Attorney General (Left), Adobe Stock (Right)
CV NEWS FEED // Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has appealed a judge’s recent overturning of the state’s law protecting unborn human life after six weeks, requesting that the pro-life law be reinstated while the state Supreme Court considers the appeal.
As CatholicVote previously reported, Fulton Superior Judge Robert McBurney ruled on September 30 that the LIFE Act, which prohibits abortion after 6 weeks, is “unconstitutional.” Doctors can now perform abortions until approximately 22 weeks.
According to Georgia news outlet Now Habersham, Carr’s appeal reads: “The harm to the State and the public is significant and irreparable, as unborn children are at risk every day that the injunction continues. This Court granted a stay in nearly identical circumstances two years ago, and it should do the same here.”
The appeal continued, “As before, every day that illegal abortions continue is another day that the lives of tiny, unique individuals are ended. There are toddlers alive today because this Court stayed the superior court’s previous order.”
The appeal argues that the Georgia Constitution has always been silent on abortion.
“Abortion has been prohibited in Georgia, without fail, for centuries. In that time, Georgia has repeatedly enacted new state constitutions, never once suggesting that any provision somehow prohibited restrictions on abortion,” the appeal read. It then referenced the most recent edition of the state Constitution, enacted in 1983.
“It is unfathomable that the people of Georgia who enacted the 1983 Constitution were unaware of abortion or disputes about its legality, morality, and so forth,” the appeal reads. “Yet the 1983 Constitution does not so much as mention the word.”
The appeal added that protecting the lives of the unborn does not violate the constitutional “right to privacy,” as McBurney had ruled.
“There is nothing legally private about ending the life of an unborn child,” it stated.
