The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled that the state can keep restricting abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy, which is when a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
The justices ruled against Planned Parenthood’s challenge parsing the language of the law to claim it would apply after nine weeks of pregnancy. The court wrote in its decision that the clear intent of the General Assembly when writing the law was a six-week restriction, Associated Press reported. The law states that abortions cannot be performed after an ultrasound detects “cardiac activity, or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart, within the gestational sac.”
“We could find not one instance during the entire 2023 legislative session in which anyone connected in any
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