9 Republicans pull support from South Carolina bill allowing the death penalty for abortion

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Nine South Carolina Republicans who had co-sponsored one of the most severe anti-abortion proposals in the country have since withdrawn their support, reversing course on a measure that proposed applying the state’s homicide laws to people who undergo abortions.

The legislation, which had 24 co-sponsors — all Republicans — since its introduction in January, lost support from nine of them in recent weeks.

Reps. Kathy Landing and Matt Leber were the first to pull back support in late February.

Leber, who was also among the first Republicans to support the measure in January, told NBC News that he decided he couldn't support the bill's existing language and realized it had no chance of passing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/9-republicans-pull-support-from-south-carolina-bill-allowing-the-death-penalty-for-abortion/ar-AA18MrmH

[lindysalsagal]

1. Unbelievable. The. Stupid.

[superpatriotman]

2. I blame the constituency

This is bordering on ISIS-type thinking.

[intheflow]

3. They pulled out when they realized it had no chance of passing

because it’s fucking insane. AKA, it’s not that they don’t still support it, it’s that it’s no longer politically viable. What cynical fucks these people are.

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Yeah. My first thought was, are they soul-searching?

Followed immediately by, good fucking luck with that!

[Hortensis]

5. As Intheflow says, and because blowback scared them off.

EVER signing onto such a thing should live with each of them forever. I don't ever forgive and forget mistaken revelations by power-seekers of what they needed to keep secret.