South Carolina GOP bill would allow death penalty as punishment for abortions: report
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South Carolina GOP bill would allow death penalty as punishment for abortions: report

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A proposed South Carolina bill would extend homicide laws – including the death penalty – to cases of abortion. The "South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act" was pre-filed in the South Carolina Legislature last week by an ultra-conservative group of Republican lawmakers, HuffPost reported Thursday. "If passed, this bill would effectively enact a total abortion ban because it considers all abortion, starting 'from the moment of fertilization,' to be homicide," the report said. “The current version has six co-sponsors, including Harris, all of whom are white men and members of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus, part of the more extreme sector of the Republican Party.” Planned Parenthood South Atlantic’s director of public affairs Vicki Ringer told HuffPost she thinks the bill will be “dead on arrival.” “I think the majority of people, even the most strident Republicans, would say the death penalty bill is not where we want to go with abortion,” Ringer told the publication.

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5 months, 3 weeks ago
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6 months, 1 week ago
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1 year, 4 months ago
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1 year, 5 months ago
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1 year, 5 months ago
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1 year, 6 months ago
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1 year, 6 months ago
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1 year, 6 months ago
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1 year, 6 months ago
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1 year, 6 months ago
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1 year, 7 months ago
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1 year, 7 months ago
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1 year, 8 months ago
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1 year, 11 months ago
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