South Carolina Doctors Push Back in Suit Over Religion, Abortion

Five South Carolina doctors’ suit over the state’s “heartbeat” abortion law should go forward because it regularly requires them to violate their religious faith, they said.

The five physicians urged the US District Court for the District of South Carolina on Monday to deny state officials’ motion to dismiss the complaint. The doctors claim the law infringes on sincerely held religious and conscientious beliefs, which would require them to use their medical training to end a pregnancy, even past the six weeks allowed by the law, when that pregnancy threatens to harm a pregnant person.

South Carolina law bans abortions ...