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South Carolina Senate Considers Nation’s Strictest Abortion Ban With Severe Penalties
South Carolina's bill would impose up to 30 years in prison for abortion and remove rape and incest exceptions, making it the strictest ban nationwide, lawmakers say.
- On Tuesday, a South Carolina Senate subcommittee held a second hearing on a measure that would go further than any since the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022, banning nearly all abortions with limited exceptions.
- Abolitionist groups have pushed the current wave of proposals as wider social shifts ease restrictions and a similar South Carolina House bill last year received a public hearing but stalled.
- The bill would impose penalties including up to 30 years in prison for women who get abortions and people who help them, and it appears to ban contraceptives like IUDs, sharply limiting in‑vitro fertilization.
- Republican Sen. Richard Cash will chair the subcommittee reviewing the measure, though GOP Senate leaders cautioned that clearing it would not guarantee further progress amid unsettled Senate composition.
- Longstanding messaging has left anti‑abortion groups divided, Mary Ziegler said, as Equal Protection South Carolina supports the bill while South Carolina Citizens for Life opposes punishing women.
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South Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the U.S. as opponents keep pushing limits
Sending women who get abortions to prison for decades. Outlawing IUDs. Sharply restricting in-vitro fertilization. These are the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation being considered by South Carolina lawmakers, even as opponents of the procedure are divided over how far to go.
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South Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits
A group of South Carolina senators plans to consider a proposal that could introduce the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation.
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