Since the removal of Roe v. Wade last year, states have been granted the right to make their own decisions regarding abortion. Many states are moving to place stringent limits on the procedure; whereas others are making abortion even more accessible.
After the fall of Roe, several states moved to enact fetal heartbeat laws that ban abortion after six weeks. Many of these bills made no exceptions for rape or incest.
However, heartbeat bills and other strict abortion bans continue to face challenges from supporters of abortion rights. In South Carolina, the state’s own fetal heartbeat bill got hit with a lawsuit by abortion advocates.
The end result of this was the South Carolina Supreme Court deeming the six-week abortion ban as not in keeping with the state’s Constitution and subsequently capsizing the ban.
The end of South Carolina’s fetal heartbeat law
According to the South Carolina Supreme Court, the state’s law does not align with women’s privacy rights. Furthermore, South Carolina’s highest court ruled the state passed an “unreasonable restriction” with an abortion ban that kicks in this prematurely.
