abortion

A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country's biggest abortion provider.

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday the state can keep banning abortions around six weeks after conception by agreeing with the earliest interpretation offered of when a heartbeat starts.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments April 2 in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case over whether South Carolina can block Planned Parenthood from providing non-abortion health care services to Medicaid recipients.

The state cut off funding to Planned Parenthood because it provided non-abortion services to Medicaid patients.

As of 11 p.m. Tuesday, unofficial results showed Carlisle Kennedy with nearly 62.5% of the vote to Sen. Katrina Shealy's 37.5%.

A near-total abortion ban was defeated in South Carolina with the help of the only three Republican women in the Senate, but after Tuesday's primary, they're losing their election bids.

A state judge has ruled that South Carolina can continue to enforce a ban on nearly all abortions around six weeks after conception as an appeal continues on what exactly defines a heartbeat under the law.

The state law has been interpreted as banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Planned Parenthood argues the ban is vague and shouldn't apply until at least three weeks later in pregnancy.

A woman unable to schedule an abortion before her sixth week of pregnancy in her home state of South Carolina is suing — the latest challenge to the state's so-called "fetal heartbeat" abortion ban.

A South Carolina woman who traveled elsewhere for an abortion just days after reaching six weeks of pregnancy wants a court to affirm that the state’s ban on the procedure should not take effect until later in a pregnancy.