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And now let's move on over to the state of South Carolina where their state Supreme Court just issued an important ruling on the topic of abortion.

Specifically, you had the South

Carolina State Supreme Court vote five to zero unanimously to uphold the state's six-week abortion ban.

This ruling of theirs, it came as a response to a challenge of the law in the books by Planned

Parenthood. And this ruling in South Carolina, it actually represents a great microcosm of what's

happening throughout the whole country in regards to the topic of abortion. And so let's go through

what's happening throughout the whole country through the lens of South Carolina. And to start with,

let me just briefly set the stage for you. In 2022, once Roe v. Wade was overturned at the federal

level by the U.S. Supreme Court,

the question of whether or not abortion was legal was returned back down to the individual states.

And different states went in very different directions. Some states moved to ban abortions entirely.

Some other states, though, they expanded access to abortion with some states even going so far as to enshrine the right to an abortion in their state constitution.

And so let me put up a map up on your screen, which will show you the abortion laws that are currently on the books throughout the whole country, which is, again, roughly three years after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

And I will quickly mention two things before I show you the map.

One is that we're filming this episode right now,

sort of at the end of May 2025,

and this map is accurate right now,

but it might change in the near future.

And then secondly, I do hope if you appreciate content like this,

which takes sometimes a long time to compile together,

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