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Governor Kim Reynolds included abortion as a nonessential medical procedure and temporarily banned it in response to the pandemic. Abortion providers filed a petition requesting an emergency injunction against the order, arguing that it violated women's rights under the state Constitution and "severely jeopardizes their health, safety and welfare."
Ending abortion in South Carolina was not included on the list of legislative priorities released by State House GOP leadership recently.Earlier this year, voters sent abortion rights-voting ...
In 2024, South Carolina lawmakers reinstated a bill that would define abortion as "prenatal homicide"; and make abortion patients eligible for the death penalty. [10] The number of abortion clinics in South Carolina has fluctuated over the years, with fifteen in 1982, eighteen in 1992 and three in 2014. There were 5,714 legal abortions in 2014 ...
The decision in South Carolina to uphold that state’s six-week abortion ban is a perfect reflection of an evolving Republican strategy on a political issue that will continue to plague the party ...
The justices took up South Carolina's appeal of a lower court's decision barring the Republican-governed state from terminating funding to Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the organization's ...
Both sides are set to argue for just over an hour at the South Carolina Supreme Court in Columbia. The justices likely will take several months to decide the case. In the meantime, the abortion ban around six weeks likely will remain in place after a lower court upheld it.
South Carolina is one of numerous Republican-led states that have moved to ban or restrict abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had ...
The South Carolina Supreme Court on a 4-1 vote rejected a request by Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to reconsider its Aug. 23 ruling, which they said left unanswered what ...