The law, signed into effect in 2023, banned abortion after the detection of a 'fetal heartbeat', which up until the law was ...

Supreme Court hears arguments from state and Planned Parenthood over fetal heartbeat, how it is detected and if abortions ...

On Wednesday morning, the S.C. Supreme Court heard arguments in a challenge brought by Planned Parenthood against South ...

Lawyers for South Carolina and Planned Parenthood are returning to the state’s highest court to argue how restrictive the ...

The best criminal justice reporting tagged with "fetal heartbeat ban," curated by The Marshall Project.

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on the state's abortion law, weighing if it bans abortion at six or nine weeks.

For the third time in less than three years, the issue of abortion is back before the South Carolina Supreme Court.

South Carolina justices closely questioned attorneys over whether a “heartbeat” ban prohibits abortions at six weeks’ ...

Since then, more inconsistencies in the law’s language have been brought up. The law refers to a fetal heartbeat, but most experts consider a fertilized egg to be an embryo for about 10 weeks ...

Ohio judge says requiring only abortion clinics to bury or cremate fetal remains violates the state's abortion rights ...

With a heartbeat abortion ban solidly in place in South Carolina, lawyers for the state and Planned Parenthood return to the ...

Music Can Touch the Heart, Even Inside the Womb Feb. 4, 2025 — Researchers have used mathematical analysis tools to study the effect of classical music on a fetal heartbeat and identify patterns ...