Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) made a series of allegations of sexual abuse, rape and voyeurism perpetrated against herself and other women by her former fiancé and three other men in a personal — and highly unusual — speech on the House floor Monday evening. Mace, who has served in the House since 2021, spoke for nearly an hour in…

Justices expected to rule on lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood that contends the state's fetal heartbeat protection act's six-week limit is vague

Claims about religious conscience are nothing new in debates about reproduction in the United States. Employers cited it in refusing to include contraception in employee insurance plans; anti-abortion doctors relied on conscience when trying to establish standing in a case to shut down access to mifepristone.

The weighty issue of abortion restrictions was back before the S.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday, with one lawyer referring to it as a “hot-button political case.”

Whether a fetal heartbeat can be detected at six weeks or only later is the question before the South Carolina Supreme Court weighing the state's abortion ban.

With a heartbeat abortion ban solidly in place in South Carolina, lawyers for the state and Planned Parenthood returned to the state’s highest court Wednesday to argue how restrictive the ban should be.