Oct. 31, 2023 - Epoch Times
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| Now, diving into the main topic, last week, in a massive victory for the pro-life cause, the state Supreme Court of Georgia, they went ahead, they struck down a lower court's decision, and in so doing, they ruled that the state's heartbeat law is, in fact, constitutional. | |
| Meaning that they upheld the six-week abortion ban that was in, you can say, legislative limbo within the state for about the last four years now. | |
| Although, in order to explain how exactly we got to this point, as well as what this means for both Georgia as well as the rest of the country moving forward, let's back up for a quick moment and start at the very beginning, right after you take a super quick moment to smash those like and subscribe buttons, which will quite literally force the algorithm to share this video, as well as this information, out to ever more people. | |
| Now, to start with, you might remember how about a year and a half ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a monumental decision regarding abortions, a decision which quite literally shook the political landscape throughout the entirety of the country. | |
| Specifically, 49 years after its initial inception, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. | |
| Wade on June 24th of last year, and in so doing, they eliminated the so-called constitutional right to an abortion, which they claimed never existed in the first place. | |
| And in the majority opinion in that case, which for your reference was written by Justice Sam Alito, the Supreme Court, they formally overturned Roe v. | |
| Wade and they effectively sent the whole issue of abortions back down to the level of the individual states. | |
| Here's part of what the majority opinion said, again, back in June of last year. | |
| We hold that Roe and Casey, which is another abortion-related case, must be overruled. | |
| The Constitution makes no reference to abortion. | |
| And no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely, the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. | |
| That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be deeply rooted in this nation's history and tradition and implicit in the concept of ordered liberty. | |
| It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives. | |
| And it was the last part of that sentence there, about returning the general issue of abortions back down to the people's elected representatives, which is essentially the heart of the matter. | |
| Because what this U.S. Supreme Court decision did was that essentially it served as a clarification saying that there was no inherent constitutional right to an abortion, and that instead... | |
| The issue should be returned to the individual states. | |
| And since there is a slim-to-none chance of any federal abortion law, one way or the other, going into effect at the congressional level, well, that means in practice that the decision of whether or not to outlaw abortions is now in the hands of the individual state legislatures. | |
| And indeed, as soon as the Supreme Court ruling was made, the impact was instantaneous, with each individual state in the country now having the power to once again decide their own level of abortion access. | |
| And so while states like California, New York, Oregon, and Washington passed legislation to make abortion as legal and as easy as possible, you had other states which went in the exact opposite direction. | |
| States like Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas, they moved to make abortion as illegal as possible, with very limited exceptions, usually when the life of the mother was in danger. | |
| And so this was all the general backdrop for what took place over in the state of Georgia. | |
| Because you see, Back in the year 2019, Georgia House Bill 481 was passed through the state legislature. | |
| The official title of that particular piece of legislation was the Living Infants Fairness Equality Act, otherwise known as the LIFE Act. | |
| And essentially this was a heartbeat law. | |
| Specifically, the statute outlawed abortions, quote, if an unborn child has been determined to have a detectable human heartbeat. | |
| Meaning that abortions would no longer be allowed in the state after about the six-week mark, which is typically the point when you can hear the baby's heartbeat in the womb. | |
| Now, as you can imagine, this bill drew immediate, massive blowback. | |
| For instance, more than 50 high-profile actors, screenwriters, and directors, they signed onto an official statement which threatened to boycott the state of Georgia if this bill was signed into law. | |
| Which would be a massive blow to the Georgian economy, given the fact that film and TV productions, they were about a $10 billion per year industry within the state. | |
| However, despite this ultimatum, Governor Brian Kemp, he went ahead and on May 7th of 2019, he signed the bill into law, effectively outlawing abortions after the six-week mark. | |
| But as you could have likely guessed, this law was almost immediately challenged by the abortion lobby. | |
| Specifically, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, As well as the Center for Reproductive Rights, they collectively sued the state of Georgia in order to get an injunction. | |
| They were successful, the injunction against the law was passed, and then subsequently, several months later, in July of 2020, a state judge ruled that the heartbeat law in itself was unconstitutional. | |
| Now, the state of Georgia appealed that decision, and the appeals process was complicated. | |
| It was multifaceted. | |
| It was going back and forth. | |
| There were multiple courts, multiple plaintiffs. | |
| There were multiple lawsuits as well that were going back and forth throughout multiple courts. | |
| That was until June 24th of the year 2022. | |
| That was when the U.S. Supreme Court, they overturned Roe v. | |
| Wade. | |
| And once the quote-unquote constitutional right to an abortion was off the books, well, the legal landscape, it completely changed. | |
| And so, the state of Georgia, the appeal to ruling, and after about a year and a half of further legal back and forth, well, just last week, in a six-to-one decision, the Supreme Court of Georgia, they threw out the lower court's decision, and they upheld the six-week ban on abortions. | |
| Specifically, speaking for the majority of the court, here's what Justice Verda Colvin wrote. | |
| Quote, The United States Supreme Court does not supply meaning to, and has no power to change, the independent and fixed meaning of the United States Constitution. | |
| And we have no authority to defy now controlling United States Supreme Court precedent interpreting the United States Constitution when determining whether the LIFE Act violated the Constitution at the time of its enactment. | |
| And as such, they upheld the six-week ban on abortion, striking down the earlier lower court's decision, and the state Supreme Court, they allowed the heartbeat bill to go into effect in Georgia. | |
| And as you can imagine, the state was quite pleased with this particular ruling, given the fact that they've been fighting for it for the past four years. | |
| For instance, the Attorney General of Georgia, he released this statement following the decision, quote, I'm pleased with the court's decision and will continue to defend the constitutionality of Georgia's LIFE Act. | |
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| Likewise, you had Ms. | |
| Lauren Eden, who herself was an abortion survivor, meaning her mother tried to abort her in the womb, but she survived and was successfully born. | |
| When speaking with CNN regarding what took place in Georgia, she said the following, quote, On the flip side, however, the Democrats, at both the state and the federal level, they were not pleased with this particular decision. | |
| For instance... | |
| Speaking on behalf of the White House, Ms. | |
| Ms. Karine Jean-Pierre said the following regarding what took place in Georgia. | |
| Quote, Likewise, you had Ms. Monterrey, | |
| Monica Simpson, who is the executive director of one of the organizations suing the state of Georgia, saying that she also criticized the decision, saying this, quote, Today's devastating decision means that our people will continue to face the horrible reality that they are in today where Georgians are suffering because they cannot access abortion care. | |
| This abortion ban has forced Georgians to travel across state lines at great expense or continue the life-altering consequences of pregnancy and childbirth against their wills. | |
| However, regardless of this criticism, the state Supreme Court ruled as they did, they upheld a six-week ban on abortion, and in so doing, they sent the case back down to the lower court for further proceedings. | |
| And so, what we're seeing taking place in Georgia right now is a microcosm of what we're seeing play itself out across the entirety of the country ever since last year, with some states making abortion easier and other states outlawing it altogether. | |
| In fact, here's a map from the website of the Guttmacher Institute, which is a pro-choice organization previously part of Planned Parenthood. | |
| And this map, it lays out the current state of abortion laws throughout the whole country. | |
| And as you can see, 15 states have near total abortion bans. | |
| Those are the states in dark red. | |
| And many other states, they have abortion bans that start at the 6, 12, 15, 22, or 24 week mark. | |
| And also, according to this data, you have seven states which allow abortion all the way up until the moment of birth. | |
| For reference, those states are Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, and Alaska. | |
| And so that's the general situation as it currently stands. | |
| If you'd like to learn more about the state Supreme Court decision over in Georgia, or if you'd like to check out that interactive abortion map for yourself, I'll throw all my research links down into the description box below this video for you to peruse at your own leisure. | |
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