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Judge delays Heartbeat law in SC
“A judge in South Carolina blocked the state’s fetal heartbeat abortion law Friday, one day after it was signed into law and challenged by pro-abortion groups,” reports DailyCaller.
Judge Clifton Newman of the Circuit Court of South Carolina issued the injunction pending a decision from the South Carolina Supreme Court about the bill, a similar version of which that court struck down in January. Newman’s decision reverts South Carolina’s abortion limit back to 22 weeks, according to Abortion Finder.
“The status quo should be maintained until the Supreme Court reviews its decision,” Newman said, according to AP, adding that “it’s going to end up there.” Newman issued the ruling in favor of the plaintiffs, who filed suit in Richland County on Thursday.
Republican Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina had just signed the Fetal Heartbeat and Abortion Protection Act last Thursday after its passage by the legislature. The law would ban abortion after the appearance of a fetal heartbeat, usually after six weeks of pregnancy, with few exceptions, and raise penalties on doctors and personnel who violated the law.
Another law, seeking to ban abortions after conception, was rejected by the state’s Senate after being opposed by several Republican women senators.
Since the state’s previous fetal heartbeat law was overturned in January, by a 3-2 vote, South Carolina’s Supreme Court has seen a change in composition, with Justice Kaye Hearn, the author of the opinion, having retired from the court.
It is unclear when the Supreme Court will take up the lawsuit, which is pending in the circuit court. “We will continue fighting to protect the lives of the unborn in South Carolina and the constitutional law that protects them. I hope that the Supreme Court will take this matter up without delay,” said McMaster,
Planned Parenthood offered no comment.
[Dr. Chaps’ comment: The judge’s ruling was arbitrary, restoring death after 22 weeks instead of 6 weeks. Who’s to say life doesn’t begin at 0 weeks, the very moment of conception? Scientifically it does, so morally we must not kill such life.]
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