South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down state's 6-week abortion ban

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BREAKING: South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down state's 6-week abortion ban

— making it one of the only Southern states where the procedure is legal up until that point.

"[F]ew decisions in life are more private than the decision whether to terminate a pregnancy. Our privacy right must be implicated by restrictions on that decision," wrote Justice Kaye Hearn.

 

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Hell, most men have no idea how long a menstrual period usually lasts or how many tampons a woman may use. These guys are making the laws!

Good

dduane Good. Because that's before most women even know they're pregnant, and it's not a fetus at that point, but an embryo...with a real probability of not making it to 12 weeks.

I don’t trust SouthCarolina . They’ve repeatedly adopted racist and anti-US agenda. Their political apparatus even supported the Insurrection . SouthCarolinafreaks January6thCommittee maga MAGAts MAGAmeltdown trump

At 6 weeks many women don’t know they are pregnant

Awesome

Makes sense.

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