The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect.
A near total abortion ban in South Carolina is one step closer to becoming law.
Should it pass, the bill would eliminate existing exceptions for rape, incest, and fatal fetal anomalies — as well as criminalize women who have an abortion and their healthcare provider.
As states that already ban abortion look to further restrict access this year, much of the focus is on pills sent by out-of-state providers.
Should it pass, the bill would also treat abortions as murder, allowing women to be subject to current laws on homicide.
State lawmakers plan to introduce new legislation on abortion this session.
A bill that would allow judges to sentence women who get abortions to decades in prison and could restrict the use of IUDs and in vitro fertilization goes before a small group of South Carolina senators Tuesday.
“What you have gone through is not okay, it will never be okay, and we will not stop pushing for justice until our reproductive rights are restored and protected. I stand for the right to abortion and I stand by the decision I made to have one,” Shelton says through tears.
Many are expressing their approval and disapproval after South Carolina Supreme Court ruling the state’s Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act constitutional.
The right to an abortion in South Carolina is back before the state’s highest court as Republicans try to restore a ban that was overturned earlier this year — this time in front of the only state Supreme Court in the nation made up entirely of men.
