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South Carolina Republicans introduce new 'personhood' bills banning nearly all abortions
Two new bills by South Carolina Republicans seek to take the fight to the Court sooner, rather than later. State Rep. Josiah Magnuson has introduced a "personhood" bill declaring that human life, and therefore legal protections, begins at conception (but, curiously, still exempts in-vitro fertilization, which suggests that the extremist declaration is considerably more fungible than one might expect, if the author truly believed it in the first place).
And State Sen. Richard Cash's bill makes having an abortion, as well as performing one, a state felony. Women who seek an abortion in South Carolina may, under Cash's bill, face imprisonment unless she or her doctors can prove to the state that it was done as "medical emergency."
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Under Cash's bill, it's not just the woman and her doctor that could face felony convictions, but friends or family members who aided or encouraged the decision. He's going for the full Gilead.
So that is the state of things in South Carolina. When Republicans demand the end of Roe v. Wade, this is what they mean. It isn't a battle over philosophical definitions; it is deciding that one specific religious premise is the ‘true’ one—and imprisoning those who disagree.
And State Sen. Richard Cash's bill makes having an abortion, as well as performing one, a state felony. Women who seek an abortion in South Carolina may, under Cash's bill, face imprisonment unless she or her doctors can prove to the state that it was done as "medical emergency."
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Under Cash's bill, it's not just the woman and her doctor that could face felony convictions, but friends or family members who aided or encouraged the decision. He's going for the full Gilead.
So that is the state of things in South Carolina. When Republicans demand the end of Roe v. Wade, this is what they mean. It isn't a battle over philosophical definitions; it is deciding that one specific religious premise is the ‘true’ one—and imprisoning those who disagree.
[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/9/1833094/-South-Carolina-Republicans-introduce-new-personhood-bills-banning-nearly-all-abortions|
Taking this shit all the way to the Supreme Court while they have their chance. removing reproductive rights from women - the ultimate wet dream for a theocracy..