South Carolina Supreme Court Reverses Itself, Enforcing Six-Week Abortion Ban

The South Carolina Supreme Court has reversed its previous decision and upheld the state's six-week abortion ban, allowing the ban to take effect. The ruling comes after the court struck down a previous version of the ban in January. The new law includes additions such as protections for contraception access and Plan B, but doctors criticize the inclusion of a "fetal heartbeat" as medically misleading. Pro-abortion rights activists argue that the ban infringes on women's right to privacy and bodily autonomy. With this ruling, South Carolina joins 17 other states with strict abortion bans in place, further limiting access to abortion in the South following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.