Posted on 01/23/2015 1:16:20 PM PST by Morgana
S.C. lawmakers gave an early push to a bill Thursday that would ban abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy – an effort the General Assembly came close to passing last year.
A five-member state House panel unanimously OK’d the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.” That act would ban abortion at 20 weeks – based on pro-lifers’ claims, disputed by some in the medical community, that a fetus can feel pain at that point.
If the House Judiciary Committee also approves, the bill will go to the House floor for a vote. A similar bill passed the House 81-22 last year only to die in the state Senate in June as the clock ran out on the legislative session.
Supporters and opponents of the bill testified before the House panel, debating whether abortion – at any stage of pregnancy – is ethical and whether laws to prohibit the procedure are constitutional.
The effort mirrors similar bills and new laws in other states and in Congress. However, lawmakers in the GOP-controlled U.S. House pulled a bill Wednesday after backlash from Republican women and other lawmakers. Republicans had planned to debate the bill Thursday, coinciding with the annual March on Life rally and the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion through the second trimester.
The S.C. proposal, sponsored by state Rep. Wendy Nanney, R-Greenville, is one of at least eight state bills that have been filed to restrict abortion.
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How I wish I lived in SC! A gorgeous state with a sense of honor, too.
On the day after the dark anniversary, everyone should remember what was said in 1973: that abortion would only be a right up to the end of the first trimester. 12 weeks.
People were not aware of Doe v. bolton because the Left knew it would horrify them - abortion on demand up to viability.
20 weeks is a child. They need to roll it back to first trimester, and then back to conception.
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Come on down. You should have no trouble passing the South Carolina Citizenship Test.
Immoral, unconstitutional legislation.
I’d love to. Maybe some day I can get out of the northeast - and I promise not to bring liberal ideas and votes to your beautiful state!
The door is always open :)
Thank you, FRiend.
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