Prohibits abortions in South Carolina after fetal heartbeat detection, except in cases of rape or incest.
The Life Begins at Conception Act amends South Carolina law to prohibit abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat, except when the pregnancy results from rape or incest and the gestational age is not more than twelve weeks. It mandates that an obstetric ultrasound be performed and the images displayed to the pregnant woman before an abortion. The act also grants the General Assembly the right to intervene in legal challenges to the act and retitles the relevant chapter as "Life Begins at Conception.
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