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Planned Parenthood is at it again. For the third time since 2022, South Carolina Planned Parenthood is attempting to use the judicial system to bypass the democratic process and impose their will upon the people.

After putting the state’s first heartbeat law on the books that went into effect with the Dobbs decision, Gov. McMaster and Republicans in the legislature won big in the election. McMaster won by an 18% margin and Republicans secured a supermajority in the state House. With their profits at stake, Planned Parenthood sued and the state Supreme Court struck down the 2021 heartbeat law. McMaster signed a new heartbeat law with a technical fix that withstood another Planned Parenthood challenge at the Supreme Court.

Now Planned Parenthood is back trying to take down the law that Republicans had a mandate to pass. In the lawsuit, Planned Parenthood challenges the consensus that a baby’s heart is beating at six weeks and claims that a fetal heartbeat instead begins at nine weeks.

The true medical consensus is this: Around six weeks gestation, a baby’s heart beats around 110 beats per minute. The heart is the baby’s first organ to form and function. Once a heartbeat is detected, a baby has over a 90% chance of surviving to birth…