My state gets an F: South Carolina's Governor Mark Sanford (R) is anti-choice. Lieutenant Governor Andre' Bauer (R) is anti-choice. Attorney General Henry McMaster (R) is anti-choice. The South Carolina House is anti-choice. The South Carolina Senate is anti-choice. Though the South Carolina Democratic Party supports a woman's right to choose, the South Carolina Republican Party opposes a woman's right to choose.

The law is part of South Carolina s Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) scheme, which is among the most onerous and invasive in the nation. TRAP laws are an anti-choice attempt to drive providers out of practice and increase the cost and inaccessibility of abortion services.

Although a federal court declared South Carolina s inspection law unconstitutional in 1999, that ruling was later overturned. Lawyers representing reproductive health care providers in South Carolina appealed. However, the U.S. Supreme Court twice refused to hear their case, most recently in April 2003. Attorney Bonnie Scott Jones of the Center for Reproductive Rights declared, 'South Carolina is denying women their constitutional right to informational privacy, and the Supreme Court is turning a blind eye to that situation.'? See: 61-12 S.C. Code Ann. Regs. §§ 101-809; Greenville Women s Clinic v. Bryant, 222 F.3d 157 (4th Cir. 2000), cert. denied, 531 U.S. 1191 (2001); Greenville Women s Clinic v. Bryant, No. 6:96-1898-20 (D.S.C. Aug. 31, 2001), aff d in part, rev d in part, 317 F.3d 357 (4th Cir. 2002), cert. denied, 123 S.Ct. 1908 (April 28, 2003)

South Carolina, does, however, allow women greater access to emergency contraception than some states.