High court affirms six-week abortion ban in South Carolina

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : " "This extensive 2023 legislative history -- considered in view of the judicial history of Planned Parenthood I -- is decisive," Few wrote. Justice Garrison Hill concurred, but warned in a separate decision against overreliance on the statements of individual legislators to interpret a statute.
46% : Planned Parenthood argued in its third lawsuit that the ban should be interpreted to take effect after approximately nine weeks under the statute's language, because that's when most of the main parts of the eventual heart have developed.
45% : Planned Parenthood sued again, but the newly all-male Supreme Court reversed course, finding in a 4-1 decision that the new law was constitutional.
37% : Planned Parenthood convinced the high court to strike down the law in a narrow 3-2 decision in January 2023, determining the law violated privacy protections guaranteed by the state constitution.

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