The Associated Press reports:
South Carolina’s new all-male Supreme Court reversed course on abortion on Wednesday, upholding a ban on most such procedures after about six weeks of pregnancy. The 4-1 ruling departs from the court’s own decision earlier this year to strike down a similar law.
The continued erosion of legal abortion access across the U.S. South comes after Republican state lawmakers replaced the lone female on the court, Justice Kaye Hearn.
Writing for the new majority, Justice John Kittredge acknowledged that the 2023 law infringes on “a woman’s right of privacy and bodily autonomy,” but said the state legislature reasonably determined this time around that those interests don’t outweigh “the interest of the unborn child to live.”
Read the full article. Photo: Gov. Henry McMaster.
JUST IN: South Carolina’s new all-male Supreme Court reverses course on abortion, upholding a ban on most procedures after six weeks of pregnancy. https://t.co/jgiyZBqvAL
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