A South Carolina legislative committee is set to take up discussions of an all-out abortion ban.

Senate Bill 323, also called the "Unborn Child Protection Act," seeks to ban all abortions in South Carolina by removing the fetal heartbeat timeline under the state's current law. The Palmetto State's "Fetal Heartbeat Law" legalizes abortion before a steady cardiac activity is detectable in an ultrasound.

The current state law allows for exceptions to the abortion ban in cases of rape, incest, fetal anomalies, or medical emergencies. All exceptions, except in case of a medical emergency, would be rolled back under the Unborn Child Protection Act.

S. 323 still allows the procedure if a doctor decides a medical emergency necessitates "the immediate abortion of her (a mother's) pregnancy to av

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