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In the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), the South Carolina Legislature enacted a ban on abortions after nine weeks of pregnancy. The Act [criminalizes] "perform[ing] or induc[ing] an abortion on a pregnant woman with the specific intent of causing or abetting an abortion" if an embryonic or "fetal heartbeat" has been detected on an ultrasound…. The Act contains three exceptions where abortions may be performed after nine weeks of pregnancy: "As a matter of due process, a criminal statute that 'fails to give a person of...