#CAROLINA OUTREACH SERIES#
The same bill without the exceptions appeared to fail in the more conservative state House last week before some Republicans maneuvered through a series of votes to allow abortions for rape or incest victims up to the 12th week of pregnancy. We’ve got to rise to that moment,” Kimbrell said. Senators who support the ban said the state needs to show it values all life by taking advantage of the opening created by the U.S. Or maybe you aren’t communicating with Him at all,” Shealy said before senators did add a proposal allowing abortions if a fetus cannot survive outside the womb. “You want to believe that God is wanting you to push a bill through with no exceptions that kill mothers and ruins the lives of children - lets mothers bring home babies to bury them - then I think you’re miscommunicating with God. Katrina Shealy said he 41 men in the Senate would be better off listening to their wives, daughters, mothers, granddaughters and looking at the faces of the girls in Sunday School classes at their churches. The debate started Wednesday with the three Republican women in the Senate speaking back-to-back, saying they can’t support the bill unless the rape or incest exceptions are restored. If the legislation is approved and signed into law, South Carolina would join Indiana as states that have passed near-total abortion bans since the monumental Supreme Court ruling. On the other side are Republicans that view any abortion as ending a life.ĭemocrats are mostly letting them argue among themselves, refusing to help more moderate Republicans and keeping the bill as strict as possible to try to defeat it. Wade was overturned and say they don’t want 14-year-old rape victims to have to give birth.
There are 30 Republicans in the 46-member Senate, but a number of them are conservatives who have digested developments elsewhere since Roe v. “I know this bill will not pass without exceptions” Josh Kimbrell, who wrote the six-week proposal. Supreme Court threw out the constitutional right to end a pregnancy in June. Thirteen states have so-called trigger laws designed to outlaw most abortions when the U.S.
There will probably be at least one last push before a final vote on the abortion ban. (AP) - South Carolina senators are moving toward a showdown on an abortion ban that does not include exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.ĭebate is expected to restart Thursday with a final vote looming after two attempts to get the exceptions back in the bill failed the day before - one up to six weeks into a pregnancy and another up to 20 weeks after conception.
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