South Carolina\u2019s all-male highest court upholds six-week abortion ban<\/p>\n
The court on Wednesday 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
Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n South Carolina\u2019s all-male Supreme Court upholds 6-week abortion ban<\/p>\n \u201cThe legislature has made a policy determination that, at a certain point in the pregnancy, a woman\u2019s interest in autonomy and privacy does not outweigh the interest of the unborn child to live,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAs a Court, unless we can say that the balance struck by the legislature was unreasonable as a matter of law, we must uphold the Act.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Abortion is banned after six weeks of pregnancy in South Carolina<\/p>\n The implications will also be felt across the region. A preliminary state analysis<\/a> found that South Carolina reported 1,000 more abortions in 2022 compared to the year prior, likely the result of people traveling there from states with tighter abortion limits. Abortion is almost completely banned in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, and is only allowed up to six weeks in Georgia. Now, people traveling from those states for care could turn to Florida or North Carolina \u2014 but new restrictions in both of those states mean they are more likely to travel to states like Virginia and Illinois.<\/p>\n Read more at 19th News<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Carolina\u2019s all-male highest court upholds six-week abortion ban The court on Wednesday 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. Read … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,26],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-6-week-bans","tag-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}