{"id":134479,"date":"2023-08-25T18:49:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T18:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finbestnews.com\/?p=134479"},"modified":"2023-08-25T18:49:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T18:49:58","slug":"south-carolinas-top-court-upholds-states-heartbeat-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finbestnews.com\/markets\/south-carolinas-top-court-upholds-states-heartbeat-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina's top court upholds state's 'heartbeat' abortion ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) – South Carolina\u2019s highest court on Wednesday upheld a new state law banning abortion after fetal heart activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, months after it blocked a similar ban.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: South Carolina Republican state senator Katrina Frye Shealy debates a six-week abortion ban at the state legislature in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. May 23, 2023. REUTERS\/Sam Wolfe\/File Photo<\/figcaption>

In a 4-1 ruling, the South Carolina Supreme Court found that the state constitution\u2019s protection against \u201cunreasonable invasions of privacy\u201d did not include a right to abortion, and that the state law was \u201cwithin the zone of reasonable policy decisions rationally related to the State\u2019s interest in protecting the unborn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this victory, we protect the lives of countless unborn children and reaffirm South Carolina\u2019s place as one of the most pro-life states in America,\u201d South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, a Republican, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The state legislature passed the hotly contested bill in May, mostly along party lines, with the notable exception of the state Senate\u2019s five women members – three Republicans, a Democrat and an independent – who all opposed it.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s state Supreme Court decision will have profound impacts on basic healthcare in South Carolina and across the region, where access for so many has already been cut off,\u201d Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The heartbeat, or six-week, cutoff comes before many women even realize they are pregnant.<\/p>\n

The new law came after the state Supreme Court in January struck down a previous abortion law, by a 3-2 vote.<\/p>\n

The author of that ruling, Justice Kaye Hearn, has since retired. South Carolina\u2019s Republican legislature in February replaced Hearn, who was the sole woman on the five-member court, with Justice Garrison Hill, who voted to uphold the new law on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Justice John Few also switched his vote, finding that the new law addressed gaps in the old one by explaining the legislature\u2019s rationale more fully and by requiring health insurance plans to cover contraception.<\/p>\n

Chief Justice Donald Beatty dissented, saying the new law was essentially the same as the previous one that the court had struck down and that the court should have followed its earlier finding.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s result will surely weigh heavily upon the public and our state\u2019s medical professionals, in light of the threat of criminal penalties placed upon practitioners and the serious harm that could occur to women who could be denied reproductive healthcare during this uncertainty,\u201d he wrote<\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide.<\/p>\n

Since then, at least 15 of the 50 states have banned abortion outright while others, including South Carolina, prohibit it after a certain length of pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.<\/p>\n

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