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S. Carolina [Legislature] votes to send 6-week abortion ban bill to governor. Court challenge coming
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sc-senate-votes-send-6-224030219.htmlA South Carolina six-week abortion ban that has cleared the Republican-controlled Legislature is now for the second time headed to the governor’s desk, whose expected signature enacting the bill into law is likely to be challenged immediately.
In a vote of 27-19, the Senate on Tuesday voted to approve House changes made to a six-week abortion ban — S. 474 — that would prohibit abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected, typically around the sixth week of pregnancy, when most people don’t know that they’re pregnant.
The present bill includes exceptions for rape and incest no more than 12 weeks, fatal fetal anomaly and the mother’s life.
“All of you listening to me that have daughters and granddaughters, ... I want you to stop and think about the laws that you’re making for their future,” said Sen. Katrina Shealy, R-Lexington, one of five women who serve in the Senate. “If you haven’t talked to them, why don’t you ask them how they feel about having you and the state of South Carolina being in their bedrooms, at the dinner table, in the doctor’s office and in the locker room?”
The Legislature’s move, in part, serves as an effort by Republicans to put the measure back before the South Carolina Supreme Court, which in January ruled a similar ban passed in 2021 unconstitutional.
In a vote of 27-19, the Senate on Tuesday voted to approve House changes made to a six-week abortion ban — S. 474 — that would prohibit abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected, typically around the sixth week of pregnancy, when most people don’t know that they’re pregnant.
The present bill includes exceptions for rape and incest no more than 12 weeks, fatal fetal anomaly and the mother’s life.
“All of you listening to me that have daughters and granddaughters, ... I want you to stop and think about the laws that you’re making for their future,” said Sen. Katrina Shealy, R-Lexington, one of five women who serve in the Senate. “If you haven’t talked to them, why don’t you ask them how they feel about having you and the state of South Carolina being in their bedrooms, at the dinner table, in the doctor’s office and in the locker room?”
The Legislature’s move, in part, serves as an effort by Republicans to put the measure back before the South Carolina Supreme Court, which in January ruled a similar ban passed in 2021 unconstitutional.
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