South Carolina Senate passes bill outlawing most abortions
3 years, 11 months ago

South Carolina Senate passes bill outlawing most abortions

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would outlaw almost all abortions in the state, overcoming years of hurdles thanks to Republicans winning new seats in last year’s elections. “Thank God for the people of this state,” said Republican Sen. Larry Grooms of Bonneau, who has been fighting to end abortion for 24 years and was the primary sponsor. And one of the House’s main abortion opponents, Republican Rep. John McCravy of Greenwood, said he thinks fellow House members realize the best way to pass the bill is to leave it alone. Except this case will never be heard because there are 30 other cases pending across the country that raise somewhat or very similar issues,” said Senate Minority Leader Brad Hutto, a Democrat from Orangeburg.

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Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood

NPR  

Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood toggle caption Kent Nishimura/Getty Images The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will review South Carolina's effort to disqualify Planned Parenthood from providing non-abortion services to Medicaid patients. The court will restrict itself to a single question in the case: The justices agreed to take up the question of …

South Carolina GOP bill would allow death penalty as punishment for abortions: report
3 weeks, 6 days ago

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

Raw Story  

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 …

Young Women in North Carolina: A Turning Point in the Abortion Debate
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Young Women in North Carolina: A Turning Point in the Abortion Debate

Associated Press  

The article explores how abortion laws in North Carolina will motivate women to vote in the upcoming presidential election. While the state has a 12-week abortion ban, young women are seeing horror stories on social media about denied medical care for miscarriages or failed pregnancies. This has motivated Democrats to target young women under 35 on the issue, with polls …

Voters oust three GOP Senators who stopped total abortion ban in South Carolina
6 months, 1 week ago

Voters oust three GOP Senators who stopped total abortion ban in South Carolina

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. AP AUDIO: Voters kick all the Republican women out of the South Carolina Senate South Carolina’s state Senate has just two women left, after voters removed three Republicans who stood …

GOP women who helped defeat a near-total abortion ban are losing reelection in South Carolina
6 months, 3 weeks ago

GOP women who helped defeat a near-total abortion ban are losing reelection in South Carolina

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A near-total abortion ban was defeated in South Carolina with the help of the only three Republican women in the Senate, but after Tuesday’s primary, they’re losing their election bids. “Republican women lose like this over one issue when we fought so hard for other things.” Bucking the tide Voters on Tuesday went against a trend of …

Judge says South Carolina can enforce 6-week abortion ban amid dispute over when a heartbeat begins
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Judge says South Carolina can enforce 6-week abortion ban amid dispute over when a heartbeat begins

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A state judge has ruled that South Carolina can continue to enforce a ban on nearly all abortions around six weeks after conception as an appeal continues on what exactly defines a heartbeat under the law. The law says abortions cannot be performed after an ultrasound can detect “cardiac activity, or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction …

'Something needs to change.' Woman denied abortion in South Carolina challenges ban
10 months, 2 weeks ago

'Something needs to change.' Woman denied abortion in South Carolina challenges ban

NPR  

'Something needs to change.' Woman denied abortion in South Carolina challenges ban Enlarge this image toggle caption James Pollard/AP James Pollard/AP Taylor Shelton said she isn't ready to be a mother. In South Carolina, the Republican-dominated General Assembly passed an abortion ban after a "fetal heartbeat" is present. Even as the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld the law six months …

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors
11 months, 3 weeks ago

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Hindustan Times  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A proposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors was overwhelmingly approved Wednesday by the Republican-led South Carolina House. COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday debated proposed restrictions on health care for transgender youth, while a Missouri legislative committee discussed a slew of like-minded proposals. Democratic South Carolina Rep. Marvin Pendarvis said Republicans should stick …

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Missouri panel sees similar bills
11 months, 3 weeks ago

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Missouri panel sees similar bills

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Republican-led South Carolina House overwhelmingly approved a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors on Wednesday, while a Missouri legislative committee discussed a slew of like-minded proposals. But Republican South Carolina Rep. John McCravy, a co-sponsor of the bill, said Wednesday that “unpublished evidence” shows puberty blockers increase self-harm and decried the banned treatments as irreversible. …

South Carolina Republican agenda includes energy resilience, gender care, Black history and guns
11 months, 4 weeks ago

South Carolina Republican agenda includes energy resilience, gender care, Black history and guns

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican lawmakers who pull all the levers of the South Carolina Legislature want to dispense with so-called “social issues” and focus this session on matters hitting residents’ pocketbooks. The 170-seat General Assembly reconvened Tuesday after last year’s work stretched into June with a prolonged debate over contentious new abortion restrictions, leaving part one of the two-year session …

Opinion: How Republicans intend to bounce back from devastating losses on abortion
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: How Republicans intend to bounce back from devastating losses on abortion

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Professor of Law at UC Davis. The beauty of these plans, for Republicans and for leaders in the antiabortion movement, is that they rely not on voters but on a 2024 victory for former President Donald Trump and the control of the Supreme Court that his first term already guaranteed. The …

Judge blocks 2 provisions in North Carolina’s new abortion law; 12-week near-ban remains in place
1 year, 3 months ago

Judge blocks 2 provisions in North Carolina’s new abortion law; 12-week near-ban remains in place

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge on Saturday blocked two portions of North Carolina’s new abortion law from taking effect while a lawsuit continues. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles issued an order halting enforcement of a provision to require surgical abortions that occur after 12 weeks — those for cases of rape and incest, for example — be performed only …

Nikki Haley’s approach to abortion is rooted in her earliest days in South Carolina politics
1 year, 3 months ago

Nikki Haley’s approach to abortion is rooted in her earliest days in South Carolina politics

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. “Nikki’s doing what she’s always done,” said Nathan Ballentine, a South Carolina lawmaker who served with Haley in the Legislature and has endorsed her presidential bid. “She’s being honest with the people and will just let it go from there.” Haley has urged Republicans to not push for a national …

South Carolina women senators who fought abortion ban to receive JFK Profile in Courage award
1 year, 3 months ago

South Carolina women senators who fought abortion ban to receive JFK Profile in Courage award

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Five women state senators from South Carolina who formed a bipartisan coalition to filibuster a near-total abortion ban in their state have been chosen to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award this year. A special International Profile in Courage Award will honor South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for …

Opinion: Abortion foes have a new strategy to fight women’s right to choose
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: Abortion foes have a new strategy to fight women’s right to choose

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Professor of Law at UC Davis. CNN — The South Carolina Supreme Court’s recent abortion decision is a reminder of the importance of state constitutional law in the post-Roe era. Mary Ziegler Bill Lax/Bill Lax/FSU Photography Service But the court’s decision — and the legislative strategy behind the law that the …

South Carolina abortion ban with unclear ‘fetal heartbeat’ definition creates confusion, doctors say
1 year, 4 months ago

South Carolina abortion ban with unclear ‘fetal heartbeat’ definition creates confusion, doctors say

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a ban on most abortions this week, the majority wrote that they were leaving “for another day” a decision on when, exactly, the “fetal heartbeat” limit begins during pregnancy. “This language creates uncertainty among medical providers who may be unsure they’re legally allowed to terminate a pregnancy.” South Carolina and …

The Plan to Claw Back Abortion Rights State by State Just Hit a Major Roadblock
55 years ago

The Plan to Claw Back Abortion Rights State by State Just Hit a Major Roadblock

Slate  

In the aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s decision undoing abortion rights, anti-abortion groups have focused more than ever on the federal courts, and with good reason. South Carolina has a capacious privacy right in its state constitutional tradition, and it was for that reason that the state supreme court struck down a six-week ban …

South Carolina’s new all-male highest court reverses course on abortion, upholding strict 6-week ban
1 year, 4 months ago

South Carolina’s new all-male highest court reverses course on abortion, upholding strict 6-week ban

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s newly all-male Supreme Court reversed course on abortion Wednesday, upholding a law banning most such procedures except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy. The continued erosion of legal abortion access across the U.S. South comes after Republican state lawmakers replaced the lone woman on the court, Justice Kaye Hearn, who reached the state’s mandatory retirement …

Judge allows nearly all of North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law to take effect
1 year, 6 months ago

Judge allows nearly all of North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law to take effect

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge ruled on Friday that nearly all of North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law scheduled to begin this weekend can take effect, while temporarily blocking one rule that doctors feared could expose them to criminal penalties. Although a strong abortion-rights supporter, Cooper said it was important to clarify the rules because the original measure was …

North Carolina governor signs law clearing up several aspects of impending abortion law
1 year, 6 months ago

North Carolina governor signs law clearing up several aspects of impending abortion law

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Last-minute revisions to North Carolina’s new abortion restrictions that take effect this weekend were signed into law on Thursday by Gov. Cooper vehemently opposed the underlying abortion law, which creates a ban on most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, replacing the current ban on most abortions after 20 weeks. While the clean-up bill was “important to …

Judge considering blocking parts of North Carolina abortion law won’t halt broader 12-week ban
1 year, 6 months ago

Judge considering blocking parts of North Carolina abortion law won’t halt broader 12-week ban

Associated Press  

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A federal judge said Wednesday that she won’t temporarily block most of a newly revised abortion law from taking effect this weekend in North Carolina, including a near-ban on the procedure after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The 12-week ban, which was approved in the spring by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled General Assembly and includes new exceptions for rape, …

Revisions to North Carolina abortion law that could scuttle lawsuit get final legislative OK
1 year, 6 months ago

Revisions to North Carolina abortion law that could scuttle lawsuit get final legislative OK

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s Republican-controlled General Assembly finalized revisions Tuesday to upcoming abortion restrictions that GOP legislative leaders hope will derail pending litigation that seeks to block large portions of the law from taking effect this weekend. If the proposed amendments don’t become law before Saturday, however, the “need for a temporary restraining order would be unchanged,” Planned Parenthood …

Republicans close in on changes to new North Carolina abortion law that could counter a lawsuit
1 year, 6 months ago

Republicans close in on changes to new North Carolina abortion law that could counter a lawsuit

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Late revisions to new North Carolina abortion restrictions scheduled to begin this weekend cleared the state Senate on Monday night, changes that if enacted could frustrate pending litigation seeking to stop the law’s enforcement. The plaintiffs complained last week in a court filing that many provisions in the new abortion law are “riddled with inconsistencies, irrational requirements …

South Carolina judge halts six-week abortion ban as state Supreme Court set to review new law
1 year, 7 months ago

South Carolina judge halts six-week abortion ban as state Supreme Court set to review new law

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy One day after the state’s Republican governor signed the ban …

As South Carolina governor signs new law, abortion restrictions strain providers in US South
1 year, 7 months ago

As South Carolina governor signs new law, abortion restrictions strain providers in US South

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A wave of newly approved abortion restrictions in the Southeastern United States has sent providers scrambling to reconfigure their services for a region with already severely limited access. Black, who oversees the organization’s work in North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and parts of Virginia, said providers have had to quickly determine how to comply with the …

South Carolina moves closer to abortion ban, a Southern trend that puts pressure on Virginia
1 year, 7 months ago

South Carolina moves closer to abortion ban, a Southern trend that puts pressure on Virginia

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — South Carolina became the latest state to move toward a near total abortion ban Wednesday with legislation that if enacted would leave Virginia an outlier in the South as a place that allows relatively permissive access to abortions amid a rapid rise in restrictions in the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned. “It would be just …

South Carolina ignores objections from all its female senators to pass six-week abortion ban
1 year, 7 months ago

South Carolina ignores objections from all its female senators to pass six-week abortion ban

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The South Carolina Senate on Tuesday passed a six-week abortion …

South Carolina ready to renew abortion ban around 6 weeks of pregnancy after Senate vote
1 year, 7 months ago

South Carolina ready to renew abortion ban around 6 weeks of pregnancy after Senate vote

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Abortion will soon be severely restricted in one of the last bastions for legal access in the U.S. South. Any challenge that reaches the South Carolina Supreme Court would also face a new bench, as the lone woman who authored the leading opinion in the abortion case had reached the court’s retirement age. It’s something that’s going …

South Carolina Senate passes abortion ban around 6 weeks of pregnancy, governor promised to sign
1 year, 7 months ago

South Carolina Senate passes abortion ban around 6 weeks of pregnancy, governor promised to sign

LA Times  

South Carolina state Sen. Penry Gustafson speaks during a Senate debate on whether to pass a stricter law on abortion on May 23, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. The proposal restores a ban South Carolina had in place when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last year — a ban that, once it took effect, was overturned by the …

This Was A Very Bad Week For Abortion Rights And Democracy
1 year, 7 months ago

This Was A Very Bad Week For Abortion Rights And Democracy

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In the past week, Republican lawmakers across multiple states took aggressive aim at reproductive rights, craftily using the legislative process to revive restrictive abortion bans. Jane Kleeb, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, slammed the combining of those efforts on Wednesday as “twisting the rules to merge two awful bills.” During Friday’s debate, several Nebraska Democrats accused …

How one North Carolina lawmaker’s defection from the Democratic Party upended abortion protections
1 year, 7 months ago

How one North Carolina lawmaker’s defection from the Democratic Party upended abortion protections

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Mere weeks before North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature enacted a 12-week abortion limit over the Democratic governor’s opposition this week, state Republican lawmakers appeared just one vote shy of an override. While Cotham had voted in favor of further restrictions when the measure initially cleared the House May 4 — a move many Democratic constituents denounced as a …

How one North Carolina lawmaker's defection from the Democratic Party upended abortion protections
1 year, 7 months ago

How one North Carolina lawmaker's defection from the Democratic Party upended abortion protections

The Independent  

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North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead

Slate  

On Tuesday night, over the cries of hundreds of protesters, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina overrode the Democratic governor’s veto to enact an unpopular 12-week abortion ban, a bill that they refused to debate in a public hearing. Barber said that he began this work after the Legislature’s “mean-spirited quadruple attack” on poor people: raising taxes on working-class families, cutting …

North Carolina Republicans approve 12-week abortion ban as sweeping restrictions spread across US South
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina Republicans approve 12-week abortion ban as sweeping restrictions spread across US South

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Republican lawmakers in North Carolina voted to override the governor’s …

Abortion after 12 weeks banned in North Carolina after GOP lawmakers override governor’s veto
1 year, 7 months ago

Abortion after 12 weeks banned in North Carolina after GOP lawmakers override governor’s veto

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will become law in North Carolina after the state’s Republican-controlled General Assembly successfully overrode the Democratic governor’s veto late Tuesday. Under the bill that had been up for a vote Tuesday in the South Carolina House, abortion access would be almost entirely banned after about six weeks of …

Republican abortion debate inches toward resolution in South Carolina
1 year, 7 months ago

Republican abortion debate inches toward resolution in South Carolina

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Abortions would be almost entirely banned after about six weeks of pregnancy under a bill debated early into Wednesday morning by the South Carolina House in a development that follows months of Republicans in the chamber insisting instead on a near-total ban that the state Senate recently rejected. “It became like we were playing with live ammunition,” …

North Carolina governor vetoes abortion limits, launches override showdown
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina governor vetoes abortion limits, launches override showdown

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — In front of an exuberant crowd, North Carolina’s Democratic governor vetoed legislation Saturday that would have banned nearly all abortions in his state after 12 weeks of pregnancy. “If just one Republican in either the House or the Senate keeps a campaign promise to protect women’s reproductive health, we can stop this ban.” Andrea Long, a 42-year-old …

North Carolina governor vetoes 12-week abortion ban, launching Republican override showdown
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina governor vetoes 12-week abortion ban, launching Republican override showdown

The Independent  

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South Carolina Republicans advance new abortion restrictions
1 year, 7 months ago

South Carolina Republicans advance new abortion restrictions

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Republicans are pushing new abortion restrictions in a late attempt to curtail access after a near-total ban failed last month. A Senate bill that would ban abortion except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy is moving quickly through the South Carolina House in the first sign that Republican leaders may be close to restoring limits …

NC lawmakers pass 12-week abortion ban; governor vows veto
1 year, 8 months ago

NC lawmakers pass 12-week abortion ban; governor vows veto

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers on Thursday approved and sent to the governor a ban on nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, down from the current 20 weeks, in response to last year’s overturning of Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court. He called the abortion vote “one of the most consequential things we have done …

North Carolina House OKs bill tightening abortion limits
1 year, 8 months ago

North Carolina House OKs bill tightening abortion limits

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina House on Wednesday approved a Republican package of abortion restrictions that would tighten the state’s ban on the procedure from after 20 weeks to after 12 weeks, while creating new exceptions but also more requirements for pregnant women and physicians. Courtney Geels, grassroots director for the socially conservative group North Carolina Values Coalition, said …

North Carolina Republicans announce abortion bill agreement
1 year, 8 months ago

North Carolina Republicans announce abortion bill agreement

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy North Carolina Republican legislative leaders said on Tuesday there's agreement …

South Carolina Democrats frustrated over no hate crime law
1 year, 8 months ago

South Carolina Democrats frustrated over no hate crime law

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Democrats in the South Carolina Senate turned debate about a bill to set guidelines for history curriculum on subjects like slavery and segregation into discussion about why the body can’t take a vote on a hate crimes bill. For the past three years, a hate crimes bill has made it through the South Carolina House and to …

Women state senators go beyond party lines, block proposed South Carolina abortion ban
1 year, 8 months ago

Women state senators go beyond party lines, block proposed South Carolina abortion ban

India Today  

A day after all five women in the South Carolina state senate banded together to block a proposed abortion ban, Republican Senator Sandy Senn posted a picture of the group on her Facebook page calling the three Republicans, one Democrat and one Independent "united and unstoppable". The senators came together across parties on Thursday to force any discussion of the …

Abortion bans fail in conservative South Carolina, Nebraska
1 year, 8 months ago

Abortion bans fail in conservative South Carolina, Nebraska

Associated Press  

— Abortion bans in Nebraska and South Carolina fell short of advancing in close votes amid heated debates among Republicans, confounding conservatives who have dominated both legislatures and further exposing the chasm on the issue of abortion within the GOP. And in South Carolina, where abortion remains legal through 22 weeks of pregnancy, the vote marked the third time a …

South Carolina Senate again rejects near-total abortion ban
1 year, 8 months ago

South Carolina Senate again rejects near-total abortion ban

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina senators rejected a bill that would have banned nearly all abortions in a conservative state that has increasingly served patients across a region where Republican officials have otherwise curtailed access. She emphasized her “pro-life” position but said the proposal left “no room for empathy, reality or graciousness.” Republican Sen. Sandy Senn criticized Majority Leader Shane …

S. Carolina Senate weighs abortion ban it recently rejected
1 year, 8 months ago

S. Carolina Senate weighs abortion ban it recently rejected

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate is gearing up for a final vote on a near-total abortion ban that the Republican-controlled chamber has repeatedly rejected over the past year. She told AP it is “cruel” that people must travel for “basic, reproductive health care.” Providers also anticipate additional need considering Florida’s governor recently signed a six-week ban into law …

Florida’s latest anti-abortion law will nearly eliminate access across the South
1 year, 8 months ago

Florida’s latest anti-abortion law will nearly eliminate access across the South

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Legislation approved by Republican state lawmakers in Florida outlaws abortion …

Florida's Republican-led Senate passes six-week abortion ban
1 year, 9 months ago

Florida's Republican-led Senate passes six-week abortion ban

India Today  

Florida's Republican-led Senate passed a bill on Monday to outlaw most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, bringing the state a step closer to joining others across the U.S. South in banning almost all abortions. Republicans in the state House of Representatives and Senate filed concurrent bills last month to restrict the procedure further, starting at six weeks of pregnancy. …

SC senators advance ban on gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 9 months ago

SC senators advance ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — About five dozen advocates for transgender youth rallied outside the South Carolina State House as Republican senators joined their conservative counterparts nationwide in advancing a ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors. Matt Sharp, a senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a national Christian conservative advocacy group, said it “would protect children and parents from being …

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