A South Carolina state choose Friday temporarily blocked a newly-signed abortion ban that went into impact Thursday after being signed by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster. The ban would have prohibited most abortions within the state from being carried out after six weeks of being pregnant.
McMaster responded to the choose’s ruling, writing, “We’ll proceed preventing to guard the lives of the unborn in South Carolina and the constitutional legislation that protects them. I hope that the Supreme Courtroom will take this matter up immediately.”
Deliberate Parenthood South Atlantic, Greenville Girls’s Clinic and two physicians filed the lawsuit Thursday, the identical day that McMaster signed the ban into legislation. The group requested {that a} South Carolina court docket in Richland County quickly block the ban’s enforcement.
The lawsuit lists 17 causes of motion in favor of enjoining the ban. One of many first arguments the lawsuit relied upon was the South Carolina Supreme Courtroom’s January ruling {that a} earlier try to cross a six-week abortion ban was unconstitutional. The teams argue that people are entitled to privateness rights, which embrace “the best to make decisions about one’s medical care and to protect one’s bodily autonomy.”
Moreover, the teams declare that imposing the six-week ban this time round would violate the state structure’s equal safety clause. The lawsuit asserts that the ban unfairly favors people who’re pregnant and want to stay as such over those that search an abortion. In line with the lawsuit, this “entrenches stereotypical, antiquated, and overbroad generalizations concerning the roles, talents, and decision-making capacities of ladies.”
Amongst different causes of motion, the lawsuit additionally claims that the ban violates the due course of rights of people searching for abortions and fails to account for psychological emergencies that might necessitate an abortion. The lawsuit additionally comprises causes of motion regarding the invoice’s imprecise language, its standing as an unconstitutional bill of attainder and a possible Medicaid Act violation.
The choose’s Friday choice to enjoin the legislation signifies that, in the intervening time, abortions stay obtainable in South Carolina after the six-week restrict. However the court docket is predicted to take additional motion, as that is solely a short lived act. The teams that originally introduced the lawsuit have promised to proceed preventing to make sure abortions stay obtainable in South Carolina.
