South Carolina Bill Wants to Apply 'Stand Your Ground' Law to Fetuses

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By Olivia Becker

April 26, 2014 |
There is a bill in the South Carolina State Senate that, if passed, would allow pregnant women to use lethal force to defend their unborn fetuses against attack.

But the controversy over the proposed law is not so much that it extends the “stand your ground” law to include unborn babies but, by doing so, it effectively grants full constitutional rights to unborn fetuses from the moment of conception.

The South Carolina Senate Judiciary Subcommittee voted 3-2 in support of the bill on April 10, moving it along to the Judiciary Committee where it is currently awaiting a vote.

“A pregnant woman is justified in using physical force or deadly physical force against another person to protect her unborn child,” the Pregnant Women's Protection Act states. “‘Unborn child' means the offspring of human beings from conception until birth."

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https://news.vice.com/articles/south-carolina-bill-wants-to-apply-stand-your-ground-law-to-fetuses

[Thinkingabout]

1. How have we elected our brightest and smartest to enact laws? They would

Work out very well with the Taliban.

[winetourdriver]

2. way to go!

Way to go South Carolina- keep on legislating your way back to the tenth century.

[MisterP]

8. heck, Hildegard of Bingen listed abortifacients!

[LiberalElite]

3. And if she

doesn't wish to use deadly force, then what?

[shenmue]

4. Can the fetus shoot people now?

Is that where we're headed?

[RKP5637]

5. If anyplace needed intergalactic intervention, it's SC ... but then again, there's a long list. n/t

[world wide wally]

6. So, let me get this right...

A woman decides to get an abortion and then changes her mind. So she can shoot the doctor?

Is that what this law is intended to accomplish?

[pintobean]

7. It's just dumb.

Any threat to her 'unborn child' is a threat to her. It's self defense whether there's a pregnancy, or not. The department of redundancy department is just throwing a bone to the fundies and anti-abortion voters.