The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday announced its decision to uphold the state's six week abortion ban.
The 4-1 decision was decided by the all-male state Supreme Court after Planned Parenthood filed suit against the law and argued before the Court in June."To be clear, our decision today is in no way intended to denigrate or exalt any of the valid concerns on either side of the abortion debate, whether those concerns are based in privacy, morality, medicine, religion, bodily autonomy, or something else," reads the majority decision, written by Justice John Kittredge.
"It is apparent the South Carolina General Assembly carefully crafted the 2023 Act in an effort to demonstrate that its policy decision was not arbitrary," wrote Kittredge. The state argued in June that millions of women across the country are capable of knowing that they are pregnant within enough of a window to seek an abortion prior to six weeks gestation, with the majority of abortions in the United States taking place very early in pregnancy.
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