The South Carolina legislature last week took a major step toward enacting a bill that would prohibit most abortions at around six weeks into pregnancy, after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The bill passed the state house and is widely expected to make it through the state senate as well, giving Republican governor Henry McMaster the chance to sign it into law.
If the policy does take effect, it will make South Carolina the second of the early primary states to enact a heartbeat bill after Iowa, whose bill has been tied up in litigation. (Just last month, Iowa’s Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, asked the state supreme court to reinstate the law; a decision is pending.)
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