abortion

Twenty Democratic attorneys general have voiced their support for a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s new abortion law. The prosecutors argue in a brief filed in federal court Wednesday that the restrictive measure could harm their states by taxing resources if women cross borders to seek care. South Carolina's law restricts abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected. It's one of more than a dozen similar measures passed across the country in recent years. The law is on hold pending the outcome of a Mississippi abortion measure currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.

A leading anti-abortion group has picked South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster as its first state-level endorsement in next year's elections. The organization tells The Associated Press that it's part of a broader strategy to seed top jobs with abortion opponents as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to give states more power over the issue. Officials from the Susan B. Anthony List will travel to Greenville on Wednesday to give their endorsement to McMaster, a Republican currently his second full term in office. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the organization's president, told The Associated Press that McMaster's key role in a case challenging Mississippi's new abortion law makes him "a hero in defending life" and a good fit for their group.

A dozen Republican governors are lending support to new restrictions on abortion in Mississippi. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Thursday headed up a coalition of signing onto an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Mississippi, which wants to enforce its abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Twenty states are supporting South Carolina's defense of a new abortion law, arguing in an amicus brief that a federal judge was wrong to pause the entire measure instead of just the provision facing a court challenge.

South Carolina's governor has appealed the pause of a new abortion law. Gov. Henry McMaster argued in a filing Wednesday that a judge's decision to put the whole measure on hold during an ongoing lawsuit "oversteps the bounds of federal judicial power." McMaster wants the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to lift a lower court's injunction on the "South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act."

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.

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