'The result will essentially force an untold number of affected women to give birth without their consent,' wrote Justice Donald Beatty in his dissent. 'I am hard-pressed to think of a greater governmental intrusion by a political body.'
last year have shown that such exceptions place pregnant people's lives and health at great risk.
S.B. 474 also ostensibly permits survivors of rape and incest to access abortion until 12 weeks of pregnancy, but only if their physician reports the crime and the survivor's name to law enforcement. Planned Parenthood noted that not only South Carolina but people across the South will be affected by the ruling. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama now have
and are bordered by states that also ban or severely restrict abortion care. Georgia and South Carolina both ban abortion at six weeks and a six-week ban is also being reviewed being reviewed by Florida's Supreme Court."South Carolinians who need care past the earliest stages of pregnancy will have to travel out of state for care, seek abortion outside the healthcare system, or continue pregnancies against their will," said Planned Parenthood in a statement.
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