The South Carolina Supreme Court has upheld a ban on nearly all abortions beyond 6 weeks after a person’s last menstrual period. The following statement is from Jace Woodrum, Executive Director of the ACLU of South Carolina:
"The extreme ban on most abortions is endangering the lives of pregnant South Carolinians and driving medical care providers away from our state. Many people do not find out they are pregnant until after the six-week cutoff that is now being imposed under South Carolina law, and the list of exceptions is so narrow that doctors are struggling to provide life-saving reproductive care for fear of criminal prosecution. Until South Carolina ends its pattern of blatant gerrymandering, a loud and regressive minority will continue to steer our politics via primary elections, resulting in continued erosion of our reproductive freedom."
As a reminder, a Winthrop Poll from May 2023 found that 63% of South Carolinians did not support a ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
The ACLU-SC was not a party in Planned Parenthood v. South Carolina, but it did file an amicus brief in the case, available here.
