21 South Carolina GOP Lawmakers Propose Death Penalty for Women Who Have Abortions

[RandySF]

MEMBERS OF THE South Carolina State House are considering a bill that would make a woman who has an abortion in the state eligible for the death penalty.

The “South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023” would amend the state’s code of laws, redefining “person” to include a fertilized egg at the point of conception, affording that zygote “equal protection under the homicide laws of the state” — up to and including the ultimate punishment: death.

The bill was authored by Rep. Rob Harris, a registered nurse and member of the Freedom Caucus; it has attracted 21 co-sponsors to date. (Two former co-sponsors — Rep. Matt Leber and Rep. Kathy Landing — asked to have their names removed as sponsors of the bill. Leber and Landing could not be reached for comment.)

Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican who represents South Carolina in the U.S. House, took to the floor on Friday to call attention to the bill, which she sees as part of a “deeply disturbing” trend. (Multiple Texas lawmakers have floated the idea of executing women who have abortions in the past. Those bills, proposed before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, failed.)

“To see this debate go to the dark places, the dark edges, where it has gone on both sides of the aisle, has been deeply disturbing to me as a woman, as a female legislator, as a mom, and as a victim of rape. I was raped as a teenager at the age of 16,” Mace said. “This debate ought to be a bipartisan debate where we balance the rights of women and we balance the right to life. But we aren’t having that conversation here in D.C. We aren’t having that conversation at home. We aren’t having that conversation with fellow state lawmakers.”


https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/south-carolina-death-penalty-abortion-1234695566/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. I have no words or mental constructs to understand what reality these loons live in

[Celerity]

2. Gilead is coming to Red USA

[Coventina]

3. Gotta love those pro-life values!!

Next, they'll be pro-aborting female fetuses to prevent future abortions!!

[highplainsdem]

4. Would they also be in favor of the death penalty for the fathers

of the embryos those women didn't want to give birth to?

Or castration, at least?

[Demovictory9]

5. Kick

[Turbineguy]

6. They love to kill people.

[roamer65]

7. How about a death penalty for GQP "lawmakers"?

I’d be onboard with that law.

[orleans]

8. THEY ARE FUCKING OUT OF THEIR MINDS

AND WHO THE FUCK IS PUTTING THESE PSYCHOPATHS INTO FUCKING OFFICE???

[raccoon]

13. SC is full of Reptilicans. Democrats are way outnumbered.

Same as in many red states.

[Mariana]

15. Christians.

For the most part, their supporters are Christians.

[Elessar Zappa]

36. That's one aspect of their identity.

The other is authoritarian fascist.

[wryter2000]

9. Keep it up, a-holes

You’ll turn SC blue. Or at least, you’ll get your sorry asses voted out.

[Hortensis]

12. THIS. Love the blabbermouths.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. They're being driven by "abortion abolition" movement.

[Buckeyeblue]

11. These people can't possibly live their lives to the standards they set for others

[Mr.Bill]

17. They never have. n/t

[Vinca]

14. Are there exemptions for their wives, daughters and mistresses who travel out of state?

[slightlv]

16. I just can't....

kill a woman for aborting a piece of cellular tissue? Something even smaller than a wart? They already force her to put her own life in danger for that piece of tissue. Her life is worth less than that piece of tissue, and that's the point they want to make. Our lives mean nothing. Period. Nada. We are nothing but baby making machines, and we either make those babies or we are complete dispensable. That's why our healthcare is so very, very bad as we get older and our baby making days are behind us. They want us to die because at that point, there is no reason for us to exist any longer. We're no longer worth anything; we're just takers.

Gods, is there anything or anyone I could hate anymore than these self-righteous hypocrites foisting their religious ideas on everyone else. How can this happen in a country that has separation of church and state written directly into its constitution? Why is this never raised? How can they get around the religious aspect? Especially when other religions are suing them precisely FOR violating their own personally held religious beliefs?

Somedays, I wonder what all those marches, all the sit-ins, and screaming was for all those decades ago. Why did I do it or it to end up like this? AFAIC, every single woman of childbearing years should get her damned tubes tied and say to hell with the religious right's opinion. The Earth could use a rest from bearing anymore bodies upon it, and we damned sure don't need to feed anymore into the White Xtianist Nationalist adoption mill.

[love_katz]

27. THIS! Every single word that you wrote. YES!

[GGoss]

18. Do These Guys Call Themselves "Pro-Life" ???

[3825-87867]

19. SO...similar automatic penalty for

men who kill using a gun?

[Takket]

20. I'd like to propose the death penalty for traitors that take away womens' rights

[ShazzieB]

21. How prolifey of those SC legislators. 😑

What does prolifey mean? Well, prolifeyness Is like truthiness. Truthiness is when something kind of looks like truth but really isn't.

[RussBLib]

22. Insanity is spreading

To what can this insanity be attributed?

Trump?
Religion?
Mental illness?

I cannot see something this draconian becoming law. At some point, these lunatics need to be brought back down to earth. This fever needs to be broken.

[Efilroft Sul]

23. Rapists will get lighter penalties than rape victims who get abortions.

That's how you know the Republican War on Women™ is real.

[keithbvadu2]

24. Should every miscarriage be investigated for potential murder?

Should every miscarriage be investigated for potential murder?

Those women MUST be kept under control.

???

[pandr32]

25. How 'pro-life' of them.

[ffr]

26. Monsters. n/t

[lindysalsagal]

28. The only way to read that is to recognize the Patriarchy attempt to re-establish dominance

over half the population.

The only way.

[Nululu]

29. To put women on fear

25% of women had an abortion. So they want to kill millions of women? Get the new gas chambers ready. That's who they are.

[lark]

30. The pro death party hates women when they aren't actively having their babies.

This isn't about life at all, they would kill us for the sin of getting pregnant and not raising their children - regardless of our age or ability to do so. The law they passed probably rules out birth control as well, but they are keeping that part secret until they start jailing women and doctors for preventing births by using birth control pllls.

[Mr. Ected]

31. So this penalty would be administered to both seed donor and recipient?

Oh, just the recipient? Why do Republicans hate women?

[Emile]

32. Religiously insanity will only make more people lose

their religion.

[Mr. Ected]

33. Instead of creating an infrastructure of counseling and adoption centers for all those new babies

They want to kill women who don't conform to their myopia.

These aren't legislators. They're jackboots.

[Hope22]

34. And what of the millions of discarded frozen embryos?

What of those frozen with no plan for implantation. Do we hunt down both parties and demand implantation? Do we charge those with murder for not implanting them in time?

[Hope22]

35. The next proposed legislation is the Menstruation Verification Law.

Monthly reporting required to avoid incarceration.