Why Are Pro-Life Legislators REPEALING Laws Criminalizing Abortion?
(Abolish Abortion Texas) Did you see what happened in South Carolina? Pro-Life legislators REPEALED an existing law that made it a criminal act for a pregnant woman to deliberately kill her own preborn baby by abortion.😳
And this isn’t the first time. Other states have done this.
Before I get to the others, though, here’s what South Carolina did.
South Carolina had a statute (S.C. Code Ann. § 44-41-80) criminalizing self-managed abortions:
But, the 2023 Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act (S.C. SB 474, Section 9), repealed that law, decriminalizing self-managed abortion in South Carolina.
Here’s how it happened.
A Democrat Senator offered the amendment to do this (Hutto, Amendment 10).
With 30 Republican senators and only 13 Democrats, you would assume that anything decriminalizing abortion like this wouldn’t stand a chance of passing, right?
Wrong.
One Republican did… to continue reading, click here.
This article was written by Bradley Pierce and published at Abolish Abortion Texas