A court in the southeastern United States has struck down South Carolina’s so-called fetal heartbeat law, which bans abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
The South Carolina Supreme Court issued its decision calling the ban an unreasonable restriction that violates a woman’s constitutional right to privacy”.
The law was overturned in a narrow three-to-two vote, with the majority siding with the plaintiffs: two South Carolina physicians, a women’s clinic in the city of Greenville, and the healthcare nonprofit Planned Parenthood.