The South Carolina Department of Public Health has issued the annual abortion report showing abortions occurring in South Carolina declined 63 percent from 2023 to 2024, the first full year that the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act was enforced.
There were 5,162 fewer abortions in 2024 than in 2023. This is the largest decline in a single year in the number of abortions occurring in South Carolina since abortion was legalized nationally in the lethal 1993 Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe in 2022 in the Dobb’s decision that returned regulation of abortion back to the States. ---More...
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