"On Tuesday, South Carolina's Senate Medical Affairs all-male subcommittee declined to advance Senate Bill 323, a disgusting pile of legislation that enacted the country's most extreme abortion ban yet. It had the starter pack of things a bill needs to fail: it was deeply unpopular, extremely horrible, and, speaking to Mother Jones , one policy specialist "a Frankenstein construction of all the worst possible restrictions from around the country.""
""These lawmakers wanted to throw people in prison and force extreme harms onto people in emergency pregnancy situations rather than let them have abortions," Nimra Chowdhry, Senior State Legislative Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement to Jezebel. "No one deserves to be treated like a criminal for getting or even talking about health care.""
"SB 323 sought to amend the state's "Unborn Child Protection Act" by eliminating exceptions for cases of rape, incest, and fetal defects; criminalizing abortions as homicide; and threatening anyone who terminates their pregnancy (or any "accomplice," like a doctor or physician) with up to 30 years in prison. It would have required a 10-year-old raped by a family member to carry their child to term while also curtailing doctors from treating complications during pregnancy."
South Carolina's Senate Medical Affairs all-male subcommittee voted not to advance Senate Bill 323, a proposal to enact an extreme abortion ban. The bill would eliminate exceptions for rape, incest, and fetal defects; classify abortion as homicide; and expose people who terminate pregnancies and those assisting them to up to 30 years in prison. The measure would force victims of assault, including a 10-year-old, to carry pregnancies to term and restrict medical treatment for pregnancy complications. Sponsors resisted narrowing provisions, prompting several Republican committee members to withhold support, allowing Democrats to block the bill in a 2–3 vote.
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