Demonstrators outside the South Carolina Supreme Court in Columbia in June. Sean Rayford / Sipa USA via AP file
Leviticus 24:17 “Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.
Important Takeaways:
- South Carolina’s all-male Supreme Court upholds 6-week abortion ban
- Former Justice Kaye Hearn, whose mandatory retirement left South Carolina without a woman on its Supreme Court, called it “a very sad day for our state.”
- The 4-1 decision means the state’s abortion ban, which Republican Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law in May, can go into effect.
- “The legislature has made a policy determination that, at a certain point in the pregnancy, a woman’s interest in autonomy and privacy does not outweigh the interest of the unborn child to live,” he wrote.
- “As 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.”
- Before Wednesday’s decision, abortions were permitted in South Carolina up to 22 weeks of pregnancy.
- The bill that was signed into law this year prohibits most abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected.
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