#BREAKING: Today, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, Greenville Women’s Clinic and two physician plaintiffs filed a new lawsuit in state court seeking to block Senate Bill 1— South Carolina’s ban on abortion after approximately six weeks of pregnancy. Abortion providers have asked a state trial court to block the law on the grounds that it violates South Carolinians’ constitutional rights to privacy and equal protection by banning abortion. Shortly after South Carolina lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1 in 2021, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and Greenville Women’s Clinic challenged the law on the ground that it was inconsistent with #RoevWade. A federal district court blocked the ban while litigation proceeded, and a federal appeals court upheld the lower court’s injunction in February 2022. Immediately after #SCOTUS issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster filed an emergency motion to stay the injunction that had blocked Senate Bill 1. The federal district court granted Gov. McMaster's request on June 27, allowing the ban to take effect after being blocked for more than a year. Because of Senate Bill 1, South Carolina providers have been forced to turn away patients who need an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many people even know they are pregnant. The plaintiffs are seeking a temporary restraining order that would prevent Senate Bill 1 from being enforced and immediately allow abortion providers in South Carolina to resume abortion services after six weeks of pregnancy. Plaintiffs are also asking the state court to enter an injunction against enforcement while the litigation proceeds. “The fallout of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has been swift and catastrophic. There has been mayhem at an unimaginable scale as people have struggled to find the essential health care that they need,” said Nancy Northup, Center President and CEO. Read our full statement via #linkinbio #abortionisessential