South Carolina governor signs 6-week abortion bill into law

[RandySF]

Washington
CNN
—
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Thursday signed a bill into law that will limit most abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

South Carolina now joins a list of Republican-led states, particularly in the South, that have championed sweeping abortion restrictions in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

“With my signature, the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act is now law and will begin saving the lives of unborn children immediately,” McMaster, a Republican, said in a statement. “This is a great day for life in South Carolina, but the fight is not over. We stand ready to defend this legislation against any challenges and are confident we will succeed. The right to life must be preserved, and we will do everything we can to protect it.”

The law is effective immediately, the governor’s office said.

Senate Bill 474, known as the “Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act,” bans most abortions after early cardiac activity can be detected in a fetus or embryo, commonly as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. Any physician who knowingly violates the law will have their license to practice in the state revoked by the State Board of Medical Examiners and could face felony charges, fines and jail time.




https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/south-carolina-abortion-ban-bill/index.html

[raging moderate]

1. Lawyers should challenge the outcomes of this ignorant bill in court.

We now know that what they are calling the six-week point in pregnancy is actually just the six-week point since the first day of her last period, and actually only about four weeks after conception. So if the bill just says "six-weeks after the beginning of pregnancy," then women should be allowed to have abortions six weeks after conception, which is the real beginning of pregnancy. Pregnancy does not begin two weeks before conception. Especially since we now know that what was thought to be the signs of a heartbeat turned out to be not a heartbeat, because the heart has not yet developed only four weeks after conception. If there is no heart, then there is no heartbeat.

[RegulatedCapitalistD]

2. What a Fetus looks like up to 9 weeks (when most abortions have occured)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/pregnancy-weeks-abortion-tissue

[raging moderate]

3. And that is really only 7 weeks of actual development at "9 weeks." Right?

We should start writing that "9 weeks" or "6 weeks&quot or whatever) in quotation marks. Thank you for this good evidence.

[RegulatedCapitalistD]

6. According to what it says "What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks - in pictures"

[raging moderate]

7. Yes, and the article mentions what I said about the actual age being 2 weeks below the stated age!

Thank you so much for this article! I have posted it to my Facebook account! Maybe some people will learn something that will prevent the slander. persecution, and incarceration of some young women who are only trying to keep their lives from being ruined. Or who have encountered a horrible tragedy in their efforts to gestate a baby.

[Docjohnson]

4. This is absolutely disgusting

These fools want to chain up women and control their reproduction decisions. Abortions should be available for a full 9 months and for any reason. Period. They'll be taking away women's right to vote and you'll never see a woman driving a car in the south before long either. There is progressive and regressive and Republicans are fully on the side of being regressive

[bullimiami]

5. 12 weeks. now 6 weeks. soon 0 weeks. none.

next up. chipping away at birth control until they get to criminalizing it.

why do these lying assholes persist in pussy footing around their goals?

[maxsolomon]

8. 2 Americas

Red States with no access, Blue States with access.

It started when Scalia died, but the * Presidency was an unmitigated disaster.

[Vinca]

9. But - don't forget - the GOP is the "freedom" party.

Sometimes I think they want to force all kids to be born so they'll have more targets.

[PXR-5]

10. Wasn't it Archie Bunker that said;

"I'm fine with abortion, less mouths to feed and less people getting welfare"?

Or maybe that was my dad.