S.C. Attorney General and Governor file petitions to rehear ruling on fetal heartbeat law

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson filed a petition to the South Carolina Supreme Court to rehear the fetal heartbeat law. Wilson released a statement regarding his petition:

Today, we filed in the South Carolina Supreme Court our petition to rehear the Fetal Heartbeat Law ruling. We respectfully disagree with the Court’s decision and believe the intent of the South Carolina Constitution is clear. The framers of our privacy provision did not conceive this provision as creating a right to abortion.

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The South Carolina Supreme Court struck down the state’s six-week ban on abortion at the start of 2023.

Governor Henry McMaster also filed a petition on the ruling, WIS has attached it below:

McMaster Petition for Rehearing by T R on Scribd

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