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Posted on 10/22/2019 6:18:48 PM PDT by Morgana
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The debate over abortion rights in South Carolina is heating up this week.
The Senate Medical Affairs Subcommittee met Tuesday morning to discuss House Bill 3020, also sometimes known as the fetal heartbeat bill.
The bill would ban abortions so long as a heartbeat can be detected, which can happen as early as six weeks into the pregnancy. Sometimes women don’t know they are pregnant at six weeks.
Tuesday, members of a Senate subcommittee voted to add an amendment to the bill to remove exceptions for women who were victims of rape or incest. That amendment was introduced by Sen. Richard Cash (R-Anderson).
The amended bill passed with a vote of 4-3 and now moves on to the full Senate Medical Affairs Committee for a vote. If the committee passes the bill, it goes to the entire Senate.
Several other states have passed similar bills. So far this year, nine states have passed laws restricting abortion rights: Ala., Ark. Ga., Ky., La., Mo., Miss., Ohio and Utah.
Here in South Carolina, HB 3020 does still include an exception if pregnancy puts the mother’s life is at risk.
But since the Senate subcommittee took out protections for victims of rape or incest, the bill will have to go back to the House for approval before going to the governor’s desk for a signature.
If the bill is signed into law, it would serve as a major setback to the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling, which legalized abortion nationwide back in 1973.
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