The South Carolina Supreme Court has unanimously determined that the state can continue banning abortion at the point when a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The law, which the court upheld on Wednesday, bans the procedure at approximately six weeks of pregnancy. Planned Parenthood had challenged the law in court, arguing that the law should not apply until nine weeks of pregnancy. According to the law, abortions cannot be performed once an ultrasound can detect “cardiac activity, or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart, within the gestational sac.” The Associated Press reports, “The state argued that is the moment when an ultrasound detects cardiac activity. Planned Parenthood said the words after the ‘or’ mean the ban should only start after the…
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