COLUMBIA (AP) — Two of the prosecutors named as defendants in a federal lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions have argued that a temporary restraining order halting the law from being enacted should be dissolved because the ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions was suspended by a federal judge Friday on its second day in effect. Judge Mary Geiger Lewis put a 14-day temporary restraining order on the law and will renew it ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A bill banning most abortions in South Carolina is heading to the governor’s desk Thursday and he has promised to sign it into law as soon as he can. The measure is unlikely to take effect, however, ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era. ...

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Despite an opinion by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says he will continue to fight against taxpayer-funded abortions. In late October the appeals court ruled in favor of a U.S. District Court decision ...

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A small group of South Carolina senators held a daylong hearing Tuesday on whether South Carolina should join about a half-dozen other states in banning nearly all abortions , but the Southern state might not be ready to follow some ...

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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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