WASHINGTON ― Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) is in one of the most closely watched congressional races in the country, ...
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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.
The Georgia Supreme Court has reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban one week after a lower court struck it down.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Georgia's law bans abortions after an embryo's cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around six weeks, before ...
a: Lateral view of a 4-week embryo showing the relationship of primordial gut to yolk sac. b: Drawing of median section of the embryo showing the early digestive system and its blood supply.