S.C. Supreme Court Upholds Six-Week Abortion Ban - FITSNews

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : " While legislative authority to set abortion law has now been affirmed in principle by the U.S. supreme court - and in practice by the state supreme court - it remains to be seen how South Carolina lawmakers will exercise their newly minted authority.
47% : Issues with the 2021 law were addressed in the updated law - Act No. 70 of 2023 - with justices making it clear the specificity of Planned Parenthood's back-to-back challenges wound up undercutting its core arguments.
42% : "Thus, it seems unlikely that abortion providers at Planned Parenthood have been left to 'guess as to its meaning.'
39% : "While Planned Parenthood now argues its doctors are unclear as to which point in time abortion is prohibited, it has previously stated the language from both the 2021 act and the 2023 act clearly prohibits abortion at approximately six weeks," Few wrote.
38% : To recap, that controversial 3-2 decision in January 2023 focused on the six-week requirement of the 2021 law - which was challenged by Planned Parenthood on the grounds it violated privacy protections of the S.C. Constitution (Article I, Section 10).

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