Abortion providers in South Carolina have filed a lawsuit seeking to block Senate Bill 1, the state’s ban on abortion after just six weeks of pregnancy — when many people are not yet aware that they are pregnant. The challenge comes less than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the federal constitutional right to abortion. In a statement, Planned Parenthood called the law a direct assault on healthcare and fundamental human rights, adding, “Without court intervention, South Carolinians will continue to suffer in a state with dangerously high rates of maternal mortality and infant mortality, particularly among Black women and babies.”