South Carolina legislators try again on bill that would classify abortion as homicide

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Salon

Published December 12, 2024 7:49PM (EST)


South Carolina GOP lawmakers are once again attempting to classify abortion as homicide in the state, opening up abortion recipients to the death penalty.

The state already boasts one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation, barring the procedure after six weeks with very few exceptions. The new bill would redefine personhood in state law to include an “unborn child at every stage of development from fertilization until birth.” As such, any abortion carried out in the state would be homicide.

The controversial bill was first introduced in January 2023. It garnered nationwide attention and backlash over the possibility of draconian punishments for abortion recipients and quickly lost about a third of its cosponsors. State Rep. Rob Harris reintroduced the proposal earlier this month, pre-filing it ahead of the state assembly reconvening in January. The new bill boasts six sponsors already.

Critics of the initial bill, which is nearly identical to Harris’s reintroduced text, argued that it would callously and excessively punish women for pregnancy terminations, even medically necessary ones. “Not content with banning abortion, the sponsors of [the bill] want to charge women with murder and sentence them to the death penalty,” Vicki Ringer, Director of Public Affairs at Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, said in early 2023 on social media. “The end of the pregnancy establishes a crime. You have to prove innocence.”

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/12/12/south-carolina-legislators-try-again-on-bill-that-would-classify-abortion-as-homicide/

[Archae]

1. These same people were described by George Carlin.

Pre-born? Sacred.

Post-born? F*****.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. With the ultimate goal of getting to the USSC where the six

justices would declare abortion is unlawful homicide and therefore banned in all 50 states and U.S. territories.

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. Yep.

Which is why the Democrats need to load that thing with enough pork to have a country-wide BBQ. Make it impossible to pass without changing everything about their state government.

Or, use that horrible 'f' word that some here do not like (at least when it is the other side that is doing it). (Filibuster)

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Anyone with a uterus is a suspect at all times.

How do you know they did? Or didn't?

How about MEN as an accomplice? Procreation failure due to inadequate monitoring of sperm deposits. This is a conspiracy. Partners in crime grows up.

[Walleye]

5. It seems that all women in this country automatically, guilty, and deserve to be punished according to GOP

[Irish_Dem]

6. The war on women continues.

[Ray Bruns]

7. This is nothing but a prelude to a national abortion ban.

Just wait

[in2herbs]

8. That would require the legislature declaring a fetus or zygote a human being and that would

open a whole can of worms especially tax wise. Talk about intended consequences, and I say intended because that is what it is.

[Lonestarblue]

9. The GOP says stay home and have babies as we want you to or we'll charge you with murder.

The right-wing effort to push all women into motherhood and nothing else continues. The message is that if you value your life, you will do as we say. Heaven help women who gave miscarriages because they will be prosecuted for doing something terrible, like walking around or breathing, for causing the miscarriage. We get closer to being Gilead every day.

[4catsmom]

10. fanatics

no difference between SC legislature and the taliban

[Montauk6]

11. Something that I've always wondered about these efforts...

Abortion=murder/homicide, right?

Does this mean that a coroner's inquest would be required for every miscarriage? Would the, in many cases, heartbroken mother, on top of dealing with loss, have to retain counsel? Would the police bring her and the father in for questioning?

[Blue_Tires]

12. I wonder how many women in that state voted GOP