Georgia's "heartbeat" abortion law will come before the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday, as the state appeals a federal ruling from last year that the law is unconstitutional.
...the Georgia law attempts to go farther than the Mississippi law - which bans abortions after 15 weeks in most cases - and explicitly brings before the court the "fetal heartbeat" concept, which states have used to ban abortions around six weeks, often before many women realize they're pregnant.
...A federal judge ruled last year that Georgia's law is unambiguously unconstitutional. - Judge Steve C. Jones wrote in a decision blocking the law that it "directly conflicts with binding Supreme Court precedent and thus violates (the) right to privacy and liberty secured by the Fourteenth Amendment."
If the 11th Circuit agrees with the federal court judge, Georgia could then appeal to the Supreme Court.
If the Supreme Court took the case at that point, they would be looking at the constitutionality of abortion laws that cite the "fetal heartbeat" concept - which could, if validated by the Supreme Court, potentially further erode Roe....