South Carolina Supreme Court overturns state 6-week abortion ban as unconstitutional

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : In Michigan, voters approved the addition of a right to abortion in that state's constitution.
48% : South Carolina's General Assembly in 2021 passed a law prohibiting abortion after the detection of a heartbeat in a fetus, which typically is heard after about six weeks of pregnancy.
46% : She noted that the constitution details not only protections "against unreasonable searches and seizures," but also against "unreasonable invasions of privacy."Hearn also wrote that any limitations on abortion "must be reasonable," and give a woman enough time to "determine she is pregnant and to take reasonable steps to terminate that pregnancy.""Six weeks is, quite simply, not a reasonable period of time for these two things to occur," she wrote.
43% : "While this right is not absolute, and must be balanced against the State's interests in protecting unborn life, this Act, which severely limits -- and in many cases completely forecloses -- abortion, is an unreasonable restriction upon a woman's right to privacy and is therefore unconstitutional," Hearn wrote.
43% : In a dissent Thursday, Justice John Kittredge wrote that the constitutional reference to "unreasonable invasions of privacy" was an "ambiguous phrase.""There is no language in article I, section 10 of the South Carolina Constitution that supports an interpretation of a privacy right that would encompass a right to abortion," Kittredge wrote.
41% : The law was blocked from taking effect by federal courts until the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on June 24 overturning the federal right to abortion that had been in place since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
40% : In November, voters in Kentucky rejected a measure that would had denied a state constitutional right to abortion.
39% : Defenders of the abortion ban had argued that the state's right to privacy only applied to criminal defendants in the context of protections from unreasonable search and seizure, given the constitution's explicit reference to that protection.
37% : The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court invalidating the federal right to abortion effectively left it up to individual states to regulate pregnancy terminations.

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