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  Restrictions on abortion care “must be reasonable and it must be meaningful in that the time frames imposed must afford a woman sufficient time to determine she is pregnant and to take reasonable steps to terminate that pregnancy,” Justice Kaye Hearn wrote 
  
  A fucking brain in 2023? Hopefully this is the beginning of a new trend.
  The MAGA crowd did quite the opposite. Source: Looked around.
context: While this is equally amazing and surprising news (especially as a South Carolinian), the lead opinion was written by Justice Hearn who is stepping down next month. She has reached mandatory retirement age. 
  The SC legislature will choose her replacement. If they select an anti-abortion Justice, this decision might be reversed. 
  Fingers crossed SC doesn’t do what I have come to expect SC to do. >
  
  I'm guessing they will pass a total abortion ban anyway and the logic used here doesn't preclude a total ban. >
  
  You might think that, but SC legislators chose not to pursue a total ban after a lot of debate. I live there so I've been following the debate pretty closely. >
  
  The Kansas referendum and the disastrous (relative to expectations) midterm elections may well have the GOP rethinking their more extreme anti-abortion stances.  
  Many are probably secretly relieved that they are being blocked by a court, so they can tell their base "well we would do all those things we said we would do, but those darn judges and their blathering about rights, you know..." >
  
  That’s got to be exactly it. 
  This way, they don’t have to bother pissing off a portion of their base by stripping rights away from them, causing them to vote against them until they can get in a better position to not worry about a larger base of voters being against them.
  If they piss off tnag base now, there’s a good chance they could be voted out, and they know it. If they get more GOP judges in, they stand to be able to impose more voting restriction laws which can be used to ensure that pissed off base doesn’t vote in the first place.