21 South Carolina GOP Lawmakers Propose Death Penalty for Women Who Have Abortions
The “South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023” would amend the state’s code of laws, redefining “person” to include a fertilized egg at the point of conception, affording that zygote “equal protection under the homicide laws of the state” — up to and including the ultimate punishment: death.
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Death Penalty For Abortions Is On The Table In South Carolina
“Given the opportunity, these Republican lawmakers would kill a woman for exercising her reproductive freedom,” DLCC spokesperson Gabrielle Chew said in a statement. “If it was up to the Republican Party, Americans would have no say over their own bodies and reproductive freedom would be banned across the country. The GOP is rotten to its core, and far too many lawmakers that hold these extreme views are in positions of power.”
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S.C. Republicans propose bill that could subject women who have abortions to the death penalty
South Carolina Republicans are pushing legislation that would make a person who undergoes an abortion subject to the state’s homicide laws, which include the death penalty.
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