The state's anti-abortion forces notched a victory in Fulton County Superior Court last October when a judge threw out a challenge to the state's "fetal pain" abortion law.

The ruling removed an injunction that had kept the state from enforcing the law, which was passed in 2012 but never took effect after three obstetricians and the ACLU challenged it.

But the anti-abortion forces weren't celebrating, and the pro-choice forces weren't complaining, because very few people actually knew about the ruling. Somehow the word didn't reach them.

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