South Carolina Six-Week Abortion Ban Heads to State’s Top Court

A South Carolina law criminalizing most abortions at more than six weeks after conception violates a state constitutional provision that protects citizens against unwarranted invasions of privacy, abortion providers will argue in the South Carolina Supreme Court Wednesday.

Courts in the state have interpreted Article I, Section 10 of the South Carolina Constitution as guaranteeing that a person has a fundamental right to make choices about their medical care and bodily integrity, Genevieve Scott, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights told Bloomberg Law. The state’s fundamental constitutional right to medical self-determination should be extended to include abortion, Scott ...