Abortion laws have been in flux across the U.S. since June, when the Supreme Court overturned constitutional protections for abortion and kicked the matter back to the states.
A Fulton County judge ruled Tuesday that Georgia can no longer enforce its strict abortion law that went into effect in July. The ruling allows the procedure to be performed after a doctor detects fetal cardiac activity. The state says it will appeal the ruling.
Abortion access has been sharply curtailed in many neighboring states since the summer.
Here is a link to an interactive map by the Guttmacher Institute, a research nonprofit that supports abortion rights. The map includes state-by-state summaries of abortion regulations, which continue to shift.
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