On Monday of this week, the Georgia Supreme Court reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban while reviewing the state’s appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down the law. The decision makes most abortions illegal in the state after six weeks of pregnancy. The court’s ruling blocked a provision of the law allowing state prosecutors access to abortion patients’ medical records without due process. The near-total abortion ban, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in 2019, went into effect in July 2022 after facing legal challenges. The law prohibits abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks, with exceptions for situations endangering the woman’s life, health, or fetal anomalies. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the state’s near-total abortion ban, known as the LIFE Act, in 2019, but it didn’t take effect until July 2022, after it faced a legal challenge and the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade.