Demonstrators for and against abortion rights outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington during oral arguments in the Louisiana abortion clinic case June Medical Services v Russo, on Wednesday, March 4, 2020.South Carolina Physicians Challenge Abortion Ban Under Religious Freedom Claims
"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," a press release from The Lawyering Project said.
January 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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A group of physicians challenged South Carolina's abortion ban in a lawsuit filed in federal court this week, alleging the law's exceptions fail to provide access to care for certain individuals and violate the religious freedoms of doctors.
In a complaint filed Jan. 8 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, five physicians asserted that The Health and Fatal Fetal Anomaly Exceptions to South Carolina’s Abortion Ban are unduly vague and routinely force doctors to withhold abortion care to ill or grieving patients. The plaintiffs claimed that denying care destroys the religious beliefs of physicians hoping to provide care to those in critical need.
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