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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

South Carolina judge halts six-week abortion ban as state Supreme Court set to review new law

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One day after the state’s Republican governor signed the ban into law, a judge in South Carolina has blocked a measure outlawing abortion at roughly six weeks of pregnancy.

Abortion rights advocates and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit moments after Governor Henry McMaster announced his signature on the bill.

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