South Carolina Is About To Allow Executions Of Women Who "Abort"

So far for pro-life, right?

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There’s something twisted about the way “pro-life” politicians behave. They just want the baby to be born. It doesn’t matter if it kills women or if a child being born will ruin a family or their quality of living. If they cared about kids, they’d offer Medicare for all children and free childcare.

That is quite telling, considering they say they’re “pro-life,” isn’t it? It’s not about the quality of life a baby has. The quality of the mother’s life also doesn’t come into play.

Despite the obvious double-standard, most GOP politicians still managed to tack on a veneer of caring for families on the grandstands. They pretend to care about women as long as they get voted in.

South Carolina just showed the GOP’s real face with a new bill. The details of this will shock you.

South Carolina’s new bill would allow women who abort a fetus to be charged with murder.

Here’s the wildest thing about this bill: there doesn’t need to be much evidence to get a murder charge under the proposed bill. Both miscarriages and abortions leave the same “trail” of physical evidence — if any is left at all.

The bill itself has a lot of hardcore theocratic verbiage:

“ Acknowledging the sanctity of innocent human life, created in the image of God, the purpose of this act is:

(1) to follow the Constitution of the United States, which requires in the Fourteenth Amendment that “no state shall… deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”;

(2) to follow the South Carolina Constitution, which requires in Section 3, Article 1 that no person “shall be denied the equal protection of the laws”;

(3) to protect the lives of preborn persons with the same criminal and civil laws protecting the lives of born persons by removing provisions that enable the commission of wilful prenatal homicide and assault;

(4) to ensure that all persons potentially subject to such laws are entitled to due process protections;

(5) to remove provisions that could be interpreted to allow a person to pressure a pregnant mother to abort her child; and, therefore

(6) to secure the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization and to protect pregnant mothers.”

Secular language is a must for proper separation of Church and State. The GOP must have missed that part. The law also wants to strip people of the right to tell a woman to abort a fetus, the right for doctors to provide abortion care, and more depending on how you interpret the bill.

Clemency is afforded for miscarriages, but there’s no physical way to prove it’s a miscarriage.

But, there’s an issue here. Who can tell who miscarried and who didn’t? You can’t with current science, especially during the earlier months of pregnancy.

According to WebMD, the difference between a miscarriage and a pregnancy termination is intent. There are no other physical differences aside from how it happens.

This bill will effectively turn abortion into a witch hunt. Oh, and there doesn’t seem to be an exception for medical emergencies that can occur during pregnancy in this bill, either.

This means that if you get pregnant in South Carolina at a time when this bill becomes law, you could face the death penalty if you miscarry. After all, you can’t prove that you weren’t trying to abort it.

The implications are horrifying when you realize that doctors are also banned from aiding in D+C’s through this law. After all, this bill declares it as murder, which would make doctors accessories to murder.

Imagine planning for a kid, having a complication, then being told you can’t get care to save your life. If you try to abort to save your life, police will arrest you for murder. If you just die on the table, you die in agony.

No one can save you.

It’s worth noting that South Carolina is a death penalty state.

This is where the real “pro-life” face shows itself. South Carolina is one of a handful of states where the death penalty is still legal. The state recently also just legalized death by firing squad.

So, if you are a pregnant woman in South Carolina, this means you might end up getting shot to death. Why? Because your body might miscarry a wanted child and that’s enough to make you guilty if not enough proof to intent can be found.

I’d like to thank all the women who voted for the GOP in South Carolina for this upcoming law.

Well, look at you, ladies! You sure did manage to get your “pro-life” stance known. The GOP could not have been elected if it wasn't for you. Now, you get to know that women — possibly ones in your own family — could be executed if their bodies betray them.

I hope that you, your daughters, and your granddaughters don’t come to our blue states for medical help. Since you voted for the party of personal accountability, I suggest you stay in South Carolina, pray, and avoid having sex since birth control can fail.

Bravo. You’re the epitome of hypocrisy. You’re so pro-life you’ll kill to prove a point. I am so glad you got what you voted for. I hope that you continue to get what you voted for, for as long as you’re still allowed to vote.

As for those of us who actually care about women’s lives, we’re going to do what we can to offer support to blue-voting women who actually want to escape your totalitarian hellscape.

After all, that’s the truly Christian thing to do — though I doubt you’d ever acknowledge that.

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