The Court of Federal Appeals (Lewis F. Powell Courthouse) and the skyline of Richmond, Virginia, in the early morning from the foot of the Virginia Capitol grounds, in Richmond, Virginia. Credit: Acroterion via Wikimedia Commons
A federal appellate panel unanimously upheld a lower court ruling blocking the enforcement of South Carolina’s fetal heartbeat law Tuesday.
The South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act was enacted in February 2021 and banned abortions after an ultrasound detects a “fetal heartbeat,” typically within the sixth week of pregnancy and before the “viability threshold” protected under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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