COLUMBIA (AP) — The parties involved in a lawsuit over South Carolina’s new ban on almost all abortions disagree about how the case should be handled while the U.S. Supreme Court considers similar litigation from Mississippi. Those supporting the restrictions ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to a showdown over abortion in a case that could dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights. With three justices appointed by President Donald Trump part of a 6-3 ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s new ban on most abortions is “likely to succeed,” a judge wrote Friday, ruling that abortions can continue until the lawsuit is resolved. Siding with a request from Planned Parenthood, the ruling ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A new South Carolina law banning abortions will stay on hold following a judge’s order on Friday to extend a temporary restraining order. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis’ extension runs through March 19. Her original order, ...

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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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