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A bill she supported allowed for death penalty. Anna Wilder ... to try women for capital punishment if they had an abortion. The bill, which barely made it out of beginning stages to become a law ...
Nine South Carolina Republicans who had co-sponsored a bill that could penalize abortion with the death penalty have pulled their support. 9 Republicans pull support from South Carolina bill ...
South Carolina Republicans are pushing legislation that would make a woman who has an abortion subject to the state's homicide laws, including the death penalty.
In 2024, South Carolina lawmakers reinstated a bill that would define abortion as "prenatal homicide"; and make abortion patients eligible for the death penalty. [10] The number of abortion clinics in South Carolina has fluctuated over the years, with fifteen in 1982, eighteen in 1992 and three in 2014. There were 5,714 legal abortions in 2014 ...
In 2023, Ligon was briefly among the Republican co-sponsors of the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023, which would make women who had abortions eligible for the death penalty; [3] [4] he later withdrew his sponsorship.
On April 12, 2022, Governor Kevin Stitt signed into law SB 612, [170] a bill that banned abortion indefinitely, unless the life of the pregnant woman was at stake, with no exceptions to rape and incest. [6] [178] The penalty for performing an abortion is two to five years imprisonment. [179]
A bill that would make the death penalty an option for women who get abortions in South Carolina is strongly supported by the S.C. Freedom Caucus. ... would potentially make abortion punishable ...
The bill was known as House Bill 2324, "An act prohibiting an abortion of an unborn human individual with a detectable fetal heartbeat." [ 118 ] One outspoken advocate of such bills is Mark Gietzen , who has tried to gather as many signatures as possible in order to get Sam Brownback to convene a special session of Congress in order to consider ...