South Carolina's all-male Supreme Court is carefully reviewing a law that would govern what millions of women can do with their bodies.
“It’s time for men in this chamber — and the ones across that hall and all across the state of South Carolina — to take some ejaculation responsibility,” Republican Sen. Katrina Shealy said in May while attempting to filibuster the law a second time. The vote was eventually allowed to proceed, and the ban was passed by a vote of 27-19.
The new law, like the old one, prohibits abortion after the first visual flutter can be observed in an embryo, typically around the 6th week of gestation — before many women even realize they are pregnant.
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