Planned Parenthood Sues to Block South Carolina Law Banning Abortions on Babies With Beating Hearts
July 18, 2022 | South Carolina
South Carolina pro-life officials have vowed to fight the lawsuit Planned Parenthood and a private abortion business have filed seeking to have the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act overturned by a state court.
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic that operates two abortion businesses in South Carolina, and the Greenville Women’s Clinic, a privately owned abortion business, filed the lawsuit Wednesday according to a press release from Planned Parenthood.
A well-placed pro-life source familiar with the lawsuit said Thursday, “I verified today that the House will intervene alongside the Governor and the Attorney General,” to seek dismissal of the state case. A federal lawsuit seeking to void the Fetal Heartbeat Act was ended on June 27, 2022, three days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Cayce in the Dobbs v Jackson case. The Supreme Court said the states individually should decide laws governing abortion.
A spokesman for pro-life S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson told Bloomberg Law the lawsuit was expected and that is office is “prepared to defend the state’s laws.”… (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)
