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Noah Feldman: ‘Heartbeat’ abortion bans are going nowhere before 2020

The Georgia anti-abortion law signed last week and the near-total abortion ban Alabama will consider again Tuesday are just the most recent examples of what you could call "Kavanaugh laws."

Like anti-abortion statutes recently enacted by Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota and Ohio, these are blatantly unconstitutional laws openly intended to violate the U.S. Supreme Court's abortion-rights jurisprudence that goes back to Roe v. Wade.

The Georgia law bans abortion after a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat — usually around the sixth week of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant. The Alabama bill would essentially block abortion at any stage of pregnancy, except in situations involving a serious health risk to the mother.