South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down anti-abortion lawState law banning procedure at roughly six weeks is ‘unreasonable’ and unconstitutional, according to ‘monumental’ ruling hailed by southern abortion rights advocatesThe Supreme Court of South Carolina has struck down the state’s anti-abortion law banning the procedure at roughly six weeks of pregnancy, declaring the law an “unreasonable” and unconsitutional restriction of a woman’s right to privacy.The court’s majority decision comes two years after the adoption of the so-called Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act, which prohibits abortion at detection of early signs of what can be considered fetal cardiac activity, which generally begins at about six weeks of pregnancy – before many people know they are pregnant.“Six weeks is, quite simply, not a reasonable period of time for these two things to occur, and therefore the Act violates our state Constitution’s prohibition against unreasonable invasions of privacy,” he added.The six-week ban, however, took effect shortly after the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization on 24 June.“Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and our partners will continue our fight to block any bill that allows politicians to interfere in people’s private health care decisions.”Without constitutional protections affirmed by decades-old precedents from Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey, which were overturned by the US Supreme Court in June, more than a dozen states have effectively outlawed abortion in nearly all instances."