STATE v. SISTERSONG WOMEN OF COLOR

S23A0421.

894 S.E.2d 1 (2023)

STATE of Georgia v. SISTERSONG WOMEN OF COLOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 24, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross Warren Bergethon , Deputy Solicitor-General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Stephen John Petrany , Solicitor-General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30334, for Appellant.

Thomas M. Fisher , Solicitor-General, Theodore E. Rokita , Attorney General, James A. Barta , Deputy Solicitor-General, Office of the Attorney General, 302 West Washington Street, IGC South, Fifth Floor, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204, for Neutral Amicus.

Tiana Scogin Mykkeltvedt , Michael Brian Terry , Jane D. Vincent , Laurie Ann Taylor , Amber Danielle Greenaway , Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP, 1201 W. Peachtree Street, N.W., Suite 3900, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3417, Julia Blackburn Stone , Sarah Brewerton-Palmer , Caplan Cobb LLC, 75 Fourteenth St. NE, Suite 2700, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Cory H. Isaacson , ACLU Foundation of Georgia, 1100 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Nneka Ewulonu, ACLU of Georgia, 1100 Spring Street NW, Ste. 640, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Katherine Wheeler Gamsey , Caplan Cobb LLC, 75 Fourteenth Street, NE, Suite 2700, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Julia Kaye , Brigitte Amiri , Rebecca Chan , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc., 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, New York 10004, Johanna Zacarias , American Civil Liberties Union, Inc., 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, New York 10004, Kyla Eastling , Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 123 William Street, Floor 9, New York, New York 10038, Jiaman Alice Wang , Cici Coquillette , Center for Reproductive Rights, 199 Water Street, 22 Floor, New York, New York 10038, for Appellee.

Jennifer Nava Ide , 879 East Rock Springs Rd, Atlanta, Georgia 30306, Rebecca Lunceford Kolb , Katherine L. D'Ambrosio , Jennifer Virostko , Councill, Gunneman & Chally, LLC, 1201 Peachtree Stree NE, Building 400, Ste 100, Atlanta, Georgia 30361, for Amicus Appellee.


The lawsuit giving rise to this appeal challenges the Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act ("LIFE Act"),1 which regulates abortion procedures in Georgia. Although Appellees claimed in the trial court that the LIFE Act violates the due-process, equal-protection...

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