The Supreme Court of Georgia reinstated the state's abortion ban on Monday, a week after a lower court blocked the law, briefly allowing providers to resume offering the procedure up to the previous ...

When originally signed into law, the LIFE Act criminalized most abortions after an embryo generates detectable cardiac activity, typically around six weeks into a pregnancy. When the US Supreme ...

WASHINGTON ― Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) is in one of the most closely watched congressional races in the country, ...

The Georgia state Supreme Court reinstated the state's six-week abortion ban on Monday, reversing a lower court ruling that had found the ban to be unconstitutional.

A Georgia judge struck down the state's abortion law, which took effect in 2022 and effectively prohibited abortions beyond ...

In fact, a six-week embryo has not even developed a heart yet and those sounds are more likely from an ultrasound machine translating electronic impulses, per the American College of Obstetricians ...

which typically occurs at about six weeks' gestation -- before many women know they're pregnant -- and redefines the word "person" in Georgia to include an embryo or fetus at any stage of development.

Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within an embryo that will eventually become the heart around six weeks into a pregnancy. McBurney wrote that his ruling means the law in ...