A major win for abortion rights supporters in South Carolina has been followed by a judge coming to the opposite conclusion in a similar case in Idaho hours later.
abc.net.au/news/south-carolina-idaho-abortion-court-rulings/101833184South Carolina's Supreme Court has ruled a state law banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy is unconstitutional because it violates a right to privacy, in a major win to abortion rights supporters.
In South Carolina's 3-2 ruling, Justice Kaye Hearn said the "state constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion".
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