South Carolina Proposes Heartbeat Bill
With a stronger GOP presence in both chambers of South Carolina’s General Assembly, pro-life legislators will use the opportunity to implement an agenda they say would make the state among America’s leaders in fetal protection laws. A Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee takes up a bill that if approved would essentially outlaw abortions in South Carolina, making them illegal once an ultrasound detects a heartbeat, which can happen as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. The measure, known as the fetal heartbeat bill, coasted through the House last year but never saw a Senate floor vote because GOP leaders said they didn’t have the numbers to block a Democratic filibuster. Read more...