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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Women who seek abortion in South Carolina could face death penalty |

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TheBiologyStupid · 11/03/2023 16:09

According to WPDE:

A new bill introduced in the South Carolina Statehouse could put the death penalty on the table for women who get an abortion.

House Bill 3549 is an amendment to the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023 and would define "person" to include an unborn child at any stage of development. This would ensure that an unborn child who is a "victim of homicide" or "victim of assault" is given the same protections under state laws -including, up to the death penalty.

wpde.com/news/local/abortion-south-carolina-death-penalty-hb3549-unborn-child-homicide-assault-prenatal-equal-protection-act-roe-v-wade-fetal-heartbeat-bill-pro-life-choice-planned-parenthood-legislature-lawmakers-2-22-23

Archived copy here: archive.ph/9xqgg

Women who have an abortion to save their own life would have to enter a plea of self-defence. FFS!

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nepeta · 11/03/2023 16:55

It's possible that this is one of those quite frequent proposals which don't go anywhere, very common from the forced-birthers in the US, i.e., that it's posturing and has no real change of going further.

On the other hand, it may. Similar proposals have been common for many decades, but they always came against the Roe v. Wade wall.

Most people not living in the US don't quite get how the country is much more like the European continent, with extremely different states in terms of political power and beliefs. Several states are ruled by far right religious groups in terms of being the base of the Republican party in those states, and what many advocate is a form of a kinder type of Taliban. We always get this when religions are interpreted literally, because of when their holy books were written down, and literal interpretations of the Bible are very common among the right in the US.

But of course the Bible doesn't say anything about abortions at all. Still, it's the conservative churches which push this.

BettyFilous · 11/03/2023 23:08

How does that sit with the UN’s human rights convention and the woman’s right to life, particularly where the termination is medically necessary to save her life?

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