Idaho, by contrast, ratifies the state’s near-total ban on termination of pregnancy
MADRID, 6 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The South Carolina Supreme Court has decided to uphold the suspension of the ban on abortion past six weeks of pregnancy, in a setback for conservatives, by proclaiming privacy as a primary right.
The court thus becomes the first state superior court to uphold the right to abortion at the state level since the United States Supreme Court revoked the constitutional right to it in June last year. Since then, Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming have presented alternatives to regulate the right to terminate a pregnancy within their own states.
In a verdict reached by three votes in favor to two against, the court found that while the state may limit a person’s right to privacy, “any limitation must be reasonable” and “give the woman sufficient time to determine that she is pregnant and take reasonable steps to terminate that pregnancy.
The court, made up of an overwhelming majority, four to one, of conservative justices, has estimated that six weeks, the approximate period in which the fetus develops a heartbeat, “is simply not a reasonable period of time for those two things to happen “, according to the opinion collected by the Politico news portal.
In contrast, the Supreme Court of Idaho has ratified, also this past Thursday, the set of regulations that constitute the almost total ban on abortion in the state given the “legitimate interest” of the authorities in “protecting prenatal life in all phases of its development”.
Under this verdict, also reached by three votes in favor to two against, abortion will continue to be prohibited in Idaho except if it is necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman or in cases of rape and incest.
