喬治亞州最高法院命令美國州的墮胎法重新生效
資料來源：布倫丹·皮爾森 / 2022 年 11 月 25 日 / 路透社健康新聞 / 財團法人台灣紅絲帶基金會編譯
（路透社）- 喬治亞州最高法院週三裁定，該州可以在懷孕六週後執行禁止墮胎的法律，同時該州對下級法院的命令提出上訴。
喬治亞州最高法院沒有給出一致命令的理由。最初於去年夏天生效的州法律受到了計畫生育聯合會和其他墮胎權利組織的挑戰。
「喬治亞州最高法院選擇剝奪孕婦決定什麼是對自己的生活和未來最有利的能力，這是不合情理的」，計畫生育東南部負責對外事務的副總裁艾米·肯尼迪在一份聲明中說。
為法律辯護的喬治亞州總檢察長克里斯托弗·卡爾辦公室發言人拒絕置評。
喬治亞州在 2019 年通過了一項禁止在檢測到胎兒心跳後墮胎的法律，通常是在六週左右。由於美國最高法院在其具有里程碑意義的 1973 年羅訴韋德案 (Roe v. Wade) 裁決中承認墮胎權，該法律立即被阻止。但在最高法院於 6 月推翻 Roe 案後不久，它就被允許生效。
在富爾頓縣之高等法院法官羅伯特·麥克伯尼上週裁定該法律無法執行，因為它在通過時是無效的。他說，既然羅案被推翻，州立法機構可以通過一項禁止墮胎的新法律。
挑戰該法律的團體還聲稱，它侵犯了喬治亞州人民根據州憲法享有的基本自由和隱私權，並將婦女的健康置於危險之中，但麥克伯尼沒有回應這些論點。
自 Roe v. Wade 案結束以來，大約有十幾個州實施了近乎全面的墮胎禁令，其中許多州類似於美國東南部地區的喬治亞州。
(Ismail Shakil 報導；Tim Ahmann 和 Bill Berkrot 編輯)
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Top Georgia Court Orders the US State’s Abortion Law Back Into Effect
By Brendan Pierson / November 25, 2022 / Reuters Health Information
(Reuters) – Georgia can enforce a law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy while the state appeals a lower court order striking it down, the state’s highest court ruled on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court of Georgia did not give a reason for its unanimous order. The state law, which originally took effect this past summer, has been challenged by Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups.
“It is unconscionable that the Georgia Supreme Court has chosen to deny pregnant people the ability to decide what is best for their own lives and futures,” Amy Kennedy, vice president for external affairs of Planned Parenthood Southeast, said in a statement.
A spokesperson for the office of Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr, which is defending the law, declined to comment.
Georgia passed a law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks, in 2019. The law was immediately blocked because of the right to abortion recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. It was allowed to take effect shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe in June.
Judge Robert McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County last week ruled the law could not be enforced because it was void at the time it was passed. He said the state legislature could pass a new law banning abortion now that Roe is overturned.
The groups challenging the law also argued that it violated Georgians’ fundamental rights to liberty and privacy under the state constitution and put women’s health at risk, but McBurney did not address those arguments.
Around a dozen states have enforced near-total abortion bans since the end of Roe v. Wade, many like Georgia in the southeast region of the United States.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil; editing by Tim Ahmann and Bill Berkrot)
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