South Carolina has paid a private law firm more than $17,000 so far to fight a lawsuit after Gov. Henry McMaster ordered the state Medicaid plan to stop paying Planned Parenthood for services. McMaster says he made the move to ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Planned Parenthood says it is suing to try to get a judge to overturn South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s order that it couldn’t provide services under the state Medicaid health plan. Planned Parenthood says that decision means thousands ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has ordered the state’s Medicaid agency to continue covering “necessary medical care and important women’s health and family planning services” but also “to terminate abortion clinics as Medicaid providers.” The executive order, directed ...

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(AP) South Carolina lawmakers have sent the state’s $8 billion spending plan to Gov. Henry McMaster, but not before a squabble over abortion. The Senate approved the budget on a 30-9 vote, and three hours later June 28, the House ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina senators have advanced a bill that would likely ban all abortions in the state. Local media report the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-9 Feb. 20 to advance a bill that says life begins at conception and at ...

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State senators voted Jan. 30 to delay a bill that would likely ban all abortions in South Carolina, saying they need time to consider possible exceptions to the law. In a packed meeting room where dozens of spectators were turned ...

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The district court was correct to strike down a Baltimore ordinance requiring pregnancy centers that do not offer or refer for abortions to disclose that fact via waiting-room signage, the circuit court said. The Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Abortion rights supporters are calling on Republican Gov. Nikki Haley to veto a bill banning most abortions in South Carolina past 19 weeks. About 50 people chanted “Stop the Ban!” during a rally Tuesday outside the ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Legislature passed a bill Tuesday prohibiting abortion after 19 weeks, becoming the 17th state to pass the restrictive ban. The legislation will now head to Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk. The Republican said in ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is on the cusp of passing a bill prohibiting nearly all abortions past 19 weeks of pregnancy, making it the latest of 15 states to pass restrictive bans whose constitutionality has yet to be ...

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