South CarolinaThe state’s Supreme Court supported six weeks for the state miscarriage A prohibition in a decision issued on Wednesday, in a disappointing loss for Family planning.
Organizing the southern Atlantic family, which runs clinics in South CarolinaFouring a lawsuit against the prohibition of abortion in the state, which prohibits the procedure after the emergence of “fetal heartbeat”. In general, these types of “heartbeat” ban on the prohibition of miscarriage were interpreted six weeks after pregnancy, when service providers can discover cardiac activity from the fetus.
But since the heart of the fetus is not formed even nine weeks of pregnancy, the planned paternity in South Atlantic argues that this activity does not constitute a real “heartbeat”. Instead of miscarriage six weeks after pregnancy, the reproductive health organization said, South Carolina should allow the procedure up to nine weeks.
South Carolina’s Supreme Court rejected this argument. Judges wrote in the ruling of 5-0, and it clearly aims to ban the law for abortion after six weeks.
Judge John wrote in the opinion of the majority: “We calculate at least sixty separate cases during the 2023 legislative session in which a member of the House of Representatives or the Senate indicated the law of 2023 as a six -week ban on abortion.” The few added: “In particular, we cannot find one counterpart during the entire legislative session of 2023 in which anyone is associated with any way to the General Assembly to act as prohibiting abortion after about nine weeks.”
The miscarriage was banned in six weeks of pregnancy or in pregnancy All over the southeastern United States.
South Carolina, Parents and planned south of the Atlantic Ocean are also in the midst of another legal dispute over miscarriage. Last month, The United States Supreme Court heard the arguments In the case of South Carolina’s attempt to expel the group from Medicaid Government program because family planning provides abortion. If the Supreme Court aspects are with South Carolina, its decision may pave the way for other red countries to reduce family planning from their Medicaid programs – and destroys the organization financially.
