Kaye Hearn SC justice who penned abortion decision still has something to say

CONWAY — Kaye Hearn had no idea she wanted to become a lawyer or judge, much less a South Carolina Supreme Court justice, when she walked into a women’s conference in Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s during a college trip. As she entered the event, someone stuck a pin on her with the number “59” emblazoned on it with little explanation. Someone told Hearn, then an undergraduate studying history at Bethany College in West Virginia, that the buttons were a reminder that women made only 59 cents for every dollar a man made. It was a rude awakening for…