South Carolina Abortion Providers Seek Rehearing on Six-Week Ban

Abortion providers in South Carolina asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider its Wednesday decision upholding a state ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the Greenville Woman’s Clinic, and two physicians filed a request Thursday for a rehearing of the ruling, which they say represents a departure from the court’s January ruling in which it found that a nearly identical six-week ban violated the right of privacy guaranteed by the state constitution.

The petition is based on the ambiguity of the definition of “fetal heartbeat” raised by the court itself at oral argument ...