BREAKING NEWS: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson confirms state’s Fetal Heartbeat Law now in effect

Published: Mon, 06/27/22

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2022

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson confirms state's Fetal Heartbeat Law now in effect

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson confirms that the state's Fetal Heartbeat Act is now in effect after the U.S. District Court of South Carolina stayed the injunction that was blocking implementation of the law.

"The Heartbeat Law is now in effect. Once Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, the decision on legally protecting the lives of unborn babies was returned to the states, so there was no longer any basis for blocking South Carolina's Heartbeat Law," Attorney General Wilson said. "Our state is now carrying out a government's most sacred and fundamental duty, protecting life."

South Carolina's law outlaws abortions after the point at which a fetal heartbeat is detected and requires an abortionist to give a mother the opportunity to view an ultrasound, hear her child's heartbeat, and receive information about her child's development. There are exceptions allowing abortions in cases of rape or incest, as long as the fetus is fewer than 20 weeks along, and in cases in which an abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother.

You can read the order here.

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For Immediate Release: Friday, June 24, 2022

Contact: Holly Gatling, Executive Director, sccl@sclife.org (803) 252-5433

Pro-Life Attorney General Alan Wilson announced moments after the Dobbs decision that he has filed a motion with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to lift its injunction against the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection Against Abortion that was signed into law last year by pro-life Governor Henry McMaster.

This is a developing story. Stay tuned.

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For Immediate Release: Friday, June 24, 2022

For more information: Laura Echevarria, (202) 626-8825, mediarelations@nrlc.org

National Right to Life Praises the Supreme Court's Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Today's Ruling Overturns High Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade Decision

WASHINGTON — The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life affiliates in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, praised the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson overturning its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Today's decision returns the abortion issue to Congress and the state legislatures.

“This is a great day for preborn children and their mothers. The Court has correctly decided that a right to abortion is not in the constitution, thereby allowing the people, through their elected representatives, to have a voice in this very important decision,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life (NRLC).

In the majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, the High Court noted:

Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.

The decision was due to the justices who chose the Constitution over political pressure and who rightly concluded that there was nothing in the Constitution that would prevent the people’s elected representatives in the states from protecting the lives of unborn children. National Right to Life is deeply grateful for the work of millions of pro-life citizens—the 3,000 chapters and 51 affiliates of National Right to Life who have carried the pro-life message into every nook, cranny and corner of America for decades.

National Right to Life will have a more thorough analysis of the decision available later today.

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Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, is the nation's oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of the pro-life movement, NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide and euthanasia.

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