It lasted less than a day. The law promulgated this Thursday in the state of South Carolina and that prohibits abortion after six weeks of gestation is suspended.
A judge in North Carolina, USA, suspended the abortion law after six weeks of pregnancy, a measure that was promulgated this Thursday by the Republican governor of the US state.
According to the Washington Post, the blocking of the measure serves to maintain the “status quountil the decision is reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States. “It will all end there,” warned Clifton Newman.
At issue is a temporary restraining order that appears just 24 hours after the law was passed, and Gov. Henry McMaster said the measure would begin “saving the lives of unborn children immediately.”
“This is a great day for life in South Carolina, but the fight is not over yet. We are ready to defend this legislation against any challenge and we are confident that we will achieve it, ”he anticipated in a statement, even before it was predicted that the law would be paralyzed a day later.
South Carolina prohibits abortion after six weeks: “It’s a great day for life”
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and Greenville Women’s Clinic (who perform the medical procedure) and two plaintiff physicians immediately filed suit against the law. Jenny Black, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, said lawmakers “ignored warnings from health care providers and the precedent set by the state supreme court just a few months ago.”
With these statements, he alluded to the Supreme Court’s decision to annul a similar ban that had been approved in South Carolina in 2021. Following Henry McMaster’s enactment, access to abortion is prohibited in almost all southern US states. USA
Source: Observadora
