Who could possible have foreseen?
Oh right, everyone.
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Bump for GA judge, whose life is likely in danger:
He said the record in the case is clear that “for many women, their pregnancy was unintended, unexpected, and often unknown until well after the embryonic heartbeat began. Yet that’s too late under the LIFE Act’s strictures: these women are now forbidden from undoing that life-altering change of circumstances — before they even knew the change had occurred.”
"For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could — or should — force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another,” the judge wrote.
Oh, you want to see medical records to check for abortions? Fuck off!
The law has no “definition of ‘health records.’ No explanation of the means by which the district attorney obtains such records: warrant, subpoena, demand letter, e-mail? And no mention of any notice to be provided to the ‘woman’ whose ‘health records’ have been made ‘available,’” the judge wrote.
“Given this language, Plaintiffs contend that the provision unconstitutionally violates their patients’ right to privacy by empowering prosecutors to obtain personal medical information without sufficient process. Plaintiffs are correct,” he added.
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GA Supreme Court says we reject your well reasoned legal opinion and substitute our magic sky fairy instead.
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More specifically, they reinstated the ban during the appeal process.
I posted about this in another thread here, but this same judge also recently ruled that election boards must certify the GA election in a blow to the election deniers. This was already clear in the law, but MAGA doesn’t care about that so it had to be emphasized.
Tangent: I hate the magic sky fairy language, partially because it’s deliberately confrontational and mocking of those with religious beliefs. In the abortion debate, I think it is also counterproductive as it frames the subject as being religious vs non-religious. There are plenty of religious people who are pro-choice.
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