Judge temporarily blocks SC 6-week abortion ban
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Women in South Carolina have more access to abortion for now at least. |
| 0:07.7 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:12.0 | A day after the state's six-week abortion ban went into effect, a judge has ordered |
| 0:15.9 | the law to be put on hold. |
| 0:17.6 | Now it's up to the all-male justices of the state Supreme Court. |
| 0:21.4 | Plus, we're on standby for another member of the far-right militia oath keepers to be |
| 0:25.7 | sentenced for their role in the January 6th Capitol Insurrection. |
| 0:29.6 | One defendant already telling the judge she was, quote, just another idiot running around |
| 0:34.6 | the hallway. |
| 0:36.1 | Then the horrifying moments after a man opened the door of a jet mid-flight. |
| 0:40.2 | 12 people are injured and now the big question is, why did he do it? |
| 0:46.7 | Hello everyone and welcome to the lead. |
| 0:51.1 | I'm Pionnigol Adriga in for Jake Tapper today. |
| 0:53.4 | We start today with our health lead. |
| 0:55.6 | A judge has temporarily blocked South Carolina's new abortion restrictions from going into effect. |
| 1:01.2 | Yesterday, Governor Henry McMaster signed a law banning most abortions as early as six |
| 1:06.0 | weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they're even pregnant. |
| 1:10.0 | It did allow for some exceptions, but for now, it's all on hold while the state Supreme |
| 1:14.4 | Court takes up the case. |
| 1:16.3 | CNN's Anne Galler is following these developments for us, so day in, what happens now? |
| 1:23.2 | So Biana, at this point in South Carolina, the limit on abortions returns to what it |
| 1:28.6 | was before the governor signed that bill into law, so 20 weeks with some exceptions. |
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