SC abortion providers file new lawsuit over six week ban, questioning cutoff time
In their Sept. 14 filing the providers ask the court to take up the case directly, bypassing lower courts, and rule the ban takes effect at nine weeks of pregnancy
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In their Sept. 14 filing the providers ask the court to take up the case directly, bypassing lower courts, and rule the ban takes effect at nine weeks of pregnancy
In their Sept. 14 filing, the providers ask the court to take up the case directly, bypassing lower courts, and rule the ban takes effect at nine weeks of pregnancy
"We defer to the legislature's gauging of the profound, competing interests at stake ..."
A potential swing vote on the newly all-male South Carolina Supreme Court grilled lawyers over whether patients have enough time to get an abortion after learning of their pregnancy as the justices weighed whether a new ban is similarly unconstitutional to one that got shot down earlier this year.
The highest court in South Carolina heard arguments on the state's latest abortion restriction Tuesday morning.