abortion

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.

Updated: The council sent a resolution to consider revoking the Greenville Women’s Clinic’s business license to committee Tuesday, with little fanfare.

This episode of the South Carolina Lede for November 21, 2023 features: part of host Gavin Jackson’s conversation with Lexington Republican Senator Katrina Shealy; a conversation between SC Public Radio reporters Maayan Schechter and Russ McKinney about judicial reform being debated in the SC Statehouse; the future of the energy industry here in the Palmetto State; and reporter Scott Morgan with a look at a Greenville County ordinance on protesting.

Greenville County officials are trying to find a way to allow protesters to express their Constitutional rights and feel protected doing so. It's not as easy as it sounds.