page_title: Abortion in South Carolina
section_title: Clinic history
hierarchical_section_title: Abortion in South Carolina / History / Clinic history
caption_attribution_description: English: Number of abortion clinics in South Carolina by year. Data is from articles linked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LauraHale/Template:Abortion_by_US_state
context_page_description: Abortion in South Carolina is legal. 42% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
  The number of abortion clinics in South Carolina has fluctuated over the years, with fifteen in 1982, eighteen in 1992 and three in 2014. There were 5,714 legal abortions in 2014, and 5,778 in 2015.
context_section_description: Between 1982 and 1992, the number of abortion clinics in the state increased by three, going from fifteen in 1982 to eighteen in 1992. In 2014, there were three abortion clinics in the state. In 2014, 93% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic. That year, 71% of women in the state aged 15 – 44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. In 2017, there were two Planned Parenthood clinics in a state with a population of 1,112,199 women aged 15 – 49 of which one offered abortion services. In 2018, there were three licensed abortion clinics in the state.  They were in Charleston, Columbia and Greenville.  The Charleston clinic was a Planned Parenthood clinic in West Ashley.
caption: Number of abortion clinics in South Carolina by year.
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