BREAKING: South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down state's 6-week abortion ban
— making it one of the only Southern states where the procedure is legal up until that point.
"[F]ew decisions in life are more private than the decision whether to terminate a pregnancy. Our privacy right must be implicated by restrictions on that decision," wrote Justice Kaye Hearn.
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