A South Carolina court has rejected Planned Parenthood’s challenge to the state’s “heartbeat” law.
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic made a motion to move the legal cutoff mark for performing abortions from the current six weeks to nine weeks, which is when the organization says a baby’s heart is fully formed. Advocates of the heartbeat law argue the six-week benchmark is when the human heart begins to beat.
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