Stricter abortion ban advances in SC Senate, months after previous plan rejected

COLUMBIA — Six months after senators rejected what would have been the nation’s strictest abortion ban, another panel of South Carolina senators advanced a bill that would still prohibit abortions from the beginning of a pregnancy but impose less severe penalties.

A subcommittee with a different composition of senators rejected a harsher version in November. But in a vote of 4-2 along party lines Wednesday, a panel advanced Sen. Richard Cash’s latest attempt to ban abortions without exceptions for rape or incest, or for fatal fetal anomalies. Four Republicans and one Democrat on the panel were absent Wednesday.....

Like the bill rejected six months ago, the proposal advanced Wednesday would ban abortion from the onset of pregnancy — as soon as it’s medically detectable — and criminalize women for getting an abortion.

The previously proposed punishment helped defeat that measure. It would’ve subjected women to up to 30 years in prison.




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