Court found that banning abortion after six weeks’ pregnancy ‘is an unreasonable restriction upon a woman’s right to privacy’<\/p>\n
A South Carolina state law that would have restricted abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected was declared unconstitutional by the state’s Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
In a 3-2 decision Thursday, the South Carolina Supreme Court said the Fetal Heartbeat Act illegally infringes on a woman’s right to privacy. The act was signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster in 2021 and prohibited abortion once a fetus’s heartbeat can be detected, which usually occurs around six weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n
Writing for the majority, Justice Kaye Hearn said, “We hold that the decision to terminate a pregnancy rests upon the utmost personal and private considerations imaginable, and implicates a woman\u2019s right to privacy. While this right is not absolute and must be balanced against the State\u2019s interest in protecting unborn life, this Act, which severely limits \u2014 and in many instances completely forecloses \u2014 abortion, is an unreasonable restriction upon a woman\u2019s right to privacy, and is therefore unconstitutional.”<\/p>\n
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