US Court Strikes Down South Carolina Abortion Ban
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A court in the southeastern United States has struck down South Carolina’s so-called fetal heartbeat law, which bans abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The South Carolina Supreme...
show moreThe South Carolina Supreme Court issued its decision calling the ban an unreasonable restriction that violates a woman’s constitutional right to privacy”.
The law was overturned in a narrow three-to-two vote, with the majority siding with the plaintiffs: two South Carolina physicians, a women’s clinic in the city of Greenville, and the healthcare nonprofit Planned Parenthood.
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