The state’s are working to define how strict their abortion policy will be ….
The absolutes are seem to NOT taking hold….
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state’s six-week abortion ban violates the state’s constitutional right to privacy and is therefore unconstitutional.
In a 3-2 vote, the state’s high court wrote, in part, “We hold that our state constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion.” In the majority were Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Beatty, Justice John Few and Justice Kaye Hearn, the sole woman on the state’s high court.
The abortion ban, signed into law in 2021, had been temporarily suspended as the Supreme Court mulled its constitutionality. It means the state’s previous ban at about 20 weeks stays in place for now…