The state Supreme Court is now made up of all men, after the woman who previously led the court’s ruling blocking an abortion ban was replaced.
—after previously striking down a similar ban months earlier—putting the ban into effect and further cutting off access to abortion in the South following the overturning of Roe v. Wade....
The justice who wrote the opinion in that 3-2 decision, Justice Kaye Hearn, has now retired and was replaced on the court, which is now made up entirely of men. Justice John W.
The ban “takes away people’s ability to control what happens to their bodies, forcing many South Carolinians to remain pregnant against their will,” Jenny Black, CEO of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, one of the plaintiffs behind the lawsuit, said in a“To be sure, the 2023 Act infringes on a woman's right of privacy and bodily autonomy,” Kittredge wrote, but “the legislature has made a policy determination that, at a certain point in the pregnancy, a woman's interest in autonomy and...
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