South Carolina joins growing list of states limiting access to abortion
by By David Montero, Los Angeles Times
Aug 27, 2017
3 minutes
In the latest move by states to curtail abortions, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed an executive order to stop giving state money to any doctor or group affiliated with providing abortions.
More than four decades after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed abortion legal, states are trying to place restrictions on when and how the procedure may be performed, or to cut off funding for groups that perform abortions.
South Carolina's move is also another salvo aimed at Planned Parenthood, the largest single provider of abortions in the country, and a popular
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