US EditionSouth Carolina Senate Considers Nation’s Strictest Abortion Ban With Severe Penalties
Senate Bill 323 would criminalize abortion as homicide, ban IUDs and emergency contraception, and impose up to 30 years in prison, facing divided GOP support and public opposition.
- 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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