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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A Korean Air plane takes off from Incheon International Airport in South Korea on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. The plane is chartered to bring back Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia. (Yonhap via AP)

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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