South Carolina's highest court upheld an abortion law Wednesday that bans the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy.
2024 GOP presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., sparred with NBC reporter Dasha Burns over abortion and the 2020 election during an exclusive network interview., primarily on procedures performed after about six weeks of pregnancy, after the detection of a fetal heartbeat.
The exterior of the South Carolina Supreme Court building in Columbia. The state's Supreme Court reversed course on abortion on Wednesday, upholding a ban on most such procedures after about six weeks of pregnancy. Beatty wrote that definitions for the terms including"fetal heartbeat" and"conception" did not provide enough clarity on when the ban should begin.
Protesters against South Carolina's stricter ban on abortion stand in the Statehouse lobby on Tuesday in Columbia, S.C.
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