"The abortion ban violates the fundamental right to practice one’s faith, forcing plaintiffs to choose between observing their religious duties but risking imprisonment and professional discipline or reneging on their religious obligations but preserving their freedom and livelihood,

Exceptions in South Carolina’s abortion ban are too vague and infringe on physicians’ religious beliefs, a group of doctors is claiming in a federal lawsuit. Under the state’s so-called “fetal heartbeat” law passed in 2023,

Five doctors in South Carolina have sued in federal district court against the state’s six-week limit on abortion, arguing that the abortion prohibition infringes upon their religious liberty. Allison Zimmer,