South Carolina's Supreme Court struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban today, ruling the privacy rights in the state constitution protect abortion access.
The 3-2 decision by the South Carolina Supreme Court allows abortion to remain legal in the state until 20 weeks of pregnancy. | Meg Kinnard/AP PhotoThe South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling the privacy rights in the state constitution protect abortion access.
“Our decision today is neither ‘pro-choice’ nor ‘pro-life’; it merely recognizes that our state constitution grants every South Carolinian a right to privacy, equal protection, and due process of laws,” Beatty wrote in a concurring opinion. “This fundamental, constitutional mandate transcends politics and opinion.”
South Carolina’s privacy clause, adopted in 1971, states that people have the right to “be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures and unreasonable invasions of privacy shall not be violated.”
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