[Opinion] Measure to impose harsh abortion restrictions fails in SC Senate subcommittee

South Carolina’s Push for the Country’s Most Extreme Abortion Ban Just Got Nuked in Committee

On Tuesday, South Carolina’s Senate Medical Affairs all-male subcommittee declined to advance Senate Bill 323, a disgusting pile of legislation that would have enacted the country’s most extreme abortion ban yet. It had the starter pack of things a bill needs to fail: it was deeply unpopular, extremely horrible, and, speaking to Mother Jones, one policy specialist called it “a Frankenstein construction of all the worst possible restrictions from…

Measure to impose harsh abortion restrictions fails in SC Senate subcommittee

A South Carolina Senate subcommittee has stopped a bill that sought to impose some of the nation’s strictest abortion penalties.

SC Supreme Court justice defends opinions on state abortion law – The Island News – Beaufort, SC

In rare contest for re-election, challengers include former House speaker By Jessica Holdman SCDailyGazette.com COLUMBIA — South Carolina Supreme Court Justice John Few defended his vote to strike down the state’s 2021 abortion law as he tries to keep his job on the state’s highest court. Few and his three challengers appeared Monday before the Legislature’s judicial screening panel. The public hearing took an unexpected turn when it was House S…