The bill, introduced in December, has garnered 16 co-sponsors in the House.
Women who get an abortion in South Carolina could face the death penalty if a proposal at the State House becomes law.
The bill explicitly exempts from prosecution a woman who receives an abortion if “she was compelled to do so by the threat of imminent death or great bodily injury.” “We have a problem with abortion, we don’t respect all life,” Harris said. “So, what my bill uniquely does is that it protects all life by defining life at conception. We have to ask ourselves as a culture, whether we believe life begins at conception or not. The ramifications of that are the same for anybody else who would take another life.”
Ann Warner, the CEO of the Women’s Rights Empowerment Network, says a woman having the abortion or the physician performing the procedure could be charged. She said the bill is policing reproductive health care, which she called “truly scary.” The proposal has also drawn the ire of U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who blasted the proposal on the U.S. House floor last week.
The latter decision struck down a “fetal heartbeat” law that would have banned abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy — a law that had been blocked from going into effect by federal courts before the Roe protections were removed.The state Supreme Court’s ruling hasn’t stopped Republican lawmakers from attempting to place new restrictions on the procedure. Last month, the South Carolina House passed a near-total abortion ban despite the new precedent.
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