South Carolina's Abortion Ban Temporarily Halted by Judge.

A judge has halted South Carolina's new abortion law, which bans most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy, until the state Supreme Court can review the measure. The ruling came after Governor Henry McMaster signed the bill into law without any notice, leaving dozens of people seeking abortions in limbo. The South Carolina measure joins stiff limitations pending in North Carolina and Florida, threatening to further delay abortions as appointments pile up in the region. Planned Parenthood immediately sued after the law went into effect Thursday, saying South Carolina's abortion clinics were flooded with canceled appointments from patients further along in their pregnancies and doctors were forced to carefully review the new regulations on the fly.