Abortion in South Carolina: Emma Giglio Shares Her Journey
glamour.comthat after nearly 50 years, pregnant people in America no longer had full rights over their own bodies—overturning the seminal 1973 Roe v.
Wade that made abortion a Constitutional right.Pro-life campaigners had , and more than a dozen states had so-called trigger laws in place to entirely, with limited exceptions, if Roe were overturned.
As of summer 2024, 21 states either ban the procedure entirely with limited exceptions or have bans in place that begin as early as 6 weeks of pregnancy, .South Carolina, where Emma and Zach live, had passed a law restricting abortion in 2021, but it could not be enforced until the fall of Roe.
This legislation banned abortion from around six weeks of pregnancy, when proponents claim a “fetal heartbeat” can be detected (though this is a characterization many reproductive care physicians ).
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