Rape, incest exceptions pulled from S Carolina abortion bill

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Rape, incest exceptions pulled from S Carolina abortion bill

By JEFFREY COLLINS
September 6, 2022

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group of South Carolina senators voted Tuesday to remove exceptions for rape and incest from a proposed abortion ban with Democrats choosing not to vote in what appeared to be a strategy to try to prevent the bill from passing through the Legislature.

The 7-3 vote in the Senate Medical Affairs Committee involved all Republican men. The committee then took a break before considering more changes as it decides whether to send the bill to the Senate floor.

The same bill without the exceptions appeared to fail in the more conservative state House last week before some Republicans maneuvered through a series of votes to allow abortions for rape and incest victims up to the 12th week of pregnancy.

Democrats are not going to help Republicans out of a box of their own making by making “an awful bill a very bad bill,” Senate Minority Leader Brad Hutto said.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-legislature-south-carolina-government-and-politics-6498221b8d4d48dde993d3a5a9deb1b7

[Submariner]

1. They might as well also remove the exception for the life of the mother

If she wasn't a tramp and all in the first place, luring the innocent man's penis into her trap, none of this pregnancy stuff would have happened.

Go the whole nine yards repubs and kill the mother too.

[EnergizedLib]

2. You hope that

This doesn’t pass.

Republicans in legislatures have declare war on their constituents.

[Timeflyer]

3. Sad, not surprising--hope SC women are paying attention

[Trailrider1951]

4. The cruelty really IS the point

What is it with these goddamn men?

[Aristus]

5. "South Carolina - Where Incestuous Rape Is Just Called 'Fatherhood'."

Yeah, it doesn't send me running to my tourism travel agent's office...

[dalton99a]

6. Goddamn evil

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Trying to win the "How stupid can you get?" prize.