South Carolina

Republican lawmakers face backlash after daring to challenge abortion bans

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Multiple Republicans lose primaries after key party allies backed their challengers instead Read more from ProPublica via Salon  

South Carolina’s abortion ban could get more extreme

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SB 323 would ban all abortions in the state except for those performed in medical emergencies or to prevent a pregnant person from suffering death or major, irreversible harm. It strikes exceptions for rape, incest and fatal fetal anomaly diagnoses, while redefining “contraceptive” as a “drug, device or chemical that prevents conception.” Read more at … Read more

The States Where It’s Riskier to Have a Baby

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Quantitative and qualitative evidence suggests that the delays created by abortion restrictions are having an effect on health care. A recent report from the Gender Equity Policy Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for women’s equality, found that, although the overall risk of dying from pregnancy is low, mothers living in states where abortion is banned … Read more

Conservatives Notch 2 Victories in Their Fight to Deny Planned Parenthood Funding

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If Planned Parenthood clinics can’t bill Medicaid for those services, many will close. Planned Parenthood estimates that it could see almost 200 closures – 90% of them in states where abortion is legal. That means over 1 million low-income people risk losing access to their health care provider. And once clinics close, they may never … Read more

The Supreme Court Allows South Carolina to Defund Planned Parenthood – News Round-Up

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Supreme Court rules for South Carolina in its bid to defund Planned Parenthood The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for South Carolina in its effort to defund Planned Parenthood, concluding that individual Medicaid patients cannot sue to enforce their right to pick a medical provider. Read more at NBC News SCOTUS Allows States To Defund … Read more

South Carolina supreme court upholds six-week abortion ban

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But because a fetus’s heart is not formed until nine weeks of pregnancy, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic argued that such activity does not constitute a real “heartbeat”. Instead of outlawing abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, the reproductive health organization said, South Carolina should permit the procedure until nine weeks. Read more at The Guardian … Read more

State lawmakers are weighing bills that would treat abortion as homicide

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The bills, filed in Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas, stem from the Prenatal Equal Protection Act, model legislation crafted by the Texas-based advocacy group the Foundation to Abolish Abortion. Three similar bills were introduced in Indiana, North Dakota and Oklahoma but failed to pass in committee or on the floor … Read more

Supreme court weighs South Carolina effort to defund Planned Parenthood

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At the heart of the case is a federal provision that guarantees that people insured by Medicaid can freely choose their own providers as long as they accept the program and are qualified to provide care. The case hinges on a technical argument: South Carolina – …. – says Medicaid beneficiaries have no right to … Read more