In 2012, Georgia passed an unconstitutional 20-week ban on abortion. The law would have banned all abortions at 20 weeks post-fertilization with narrow exceptions for situations in which an abortion is necessary to save a woman’s life, to prevent the risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, or in cases of medically futile pregnancies in which the fetus has “a profound and irremediable congenital or chromosomal anomaly that is incompatible with sustaining life after birth.” In November 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit challenging the law as unconstitutional under the Georgia constitution.