Rape, incest exceptions pulled from S Carolina abortion bill

[RandySF]

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.

“We think by highlighting the fact a bunch of extreme, Republican men are trying to control women’s decisions in South Carolina — they need to own that. The governor needs to own that,” Hutto told reporters during the break.

Republicans told their Democratic colleagues their strategy was shortsighted.




https://news.yahoo.com/rape-incest-exceptions-pulled-carolina-173436596.html

[dchill]

1. I guess they feel that South Carolina women just aren't...

...pissed off enough.

[Shermann]

2. I hope they're pissed off enough to vote opposite of their MAGA-husbands nt

[dchill]

3. What I'm sayin'!

[keithbvadu2]

4. forcing eight or ten year old girls to give birth

'The gov't should not be in the business of forcing eight or ten year old girls to give birth.'

That was from another poster but I cannot find it again.

A good comeback. It gives the anti-choicers/forced birthers a chance to verify their beliefs.