Gov. Nikki Haley has vetoed a bill that would send $40 million in aid to sc farmers.
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Supporters said a foetus can feel pain at 20 weeks.
Dr. Jean A. Wright, who gave the following testimony before a Congressional subcommittee, said that preborn children at 20 weeks of gestation have both the ability to process pain and the ability to transmit and perceive pain.
The only legal exception would occur when the mother’s life is in jeopardy, or when a doctor has determined the fetus would not survive outside the womb.
On March 8, the South Carolina Senate passed the bill known as Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act by a strong majority, LifeNews reported. Bill co-sponsor Rep. Donna Hicks, R-Boiling Springs, says a woman who is raped or the victim of incest still has nearly five months to get an abortion.
Editor’s note: The House this afternoon voted 112-2 to override Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto of the Farm Aid bill.
“I believe that life begins at conception and every step we can take to get back to that point is important”, the bill’s sponsor, Republican Representative Wendy Nanney said.
“It is something we have been working on for four years”, she said, adding that exceptions for rape and incest were “not an issue”. The U.S. Supreme Court is now hearing arguments about whether that state’s law places an undue burden on the constitutional right to an abortion.
“We know this is a bad time for our farmers to come to Columbia as spring planting is in full swing, however, legislators have asked for farmers to be at the Statehouse”, the organization said in a statement on its website.
Lawmakers legislative “efforts reflect the reality that most Americans – women in higher numbers than men – want to end brutal late-term abortions in this country”, said Marjorie Dannenfelder, president of the Susan B. Anthony List. Those exceptions were included in the S.C. Senate’s version of the bill but removed in a compromise bill.
Fewer than 30 abortions, on average, are administered each year at 20 weeks or later, according to data that South Carolina’s public health agency has collected since 1990.
Doctors who would perform abortions in contrast to what is lawful would face three years’ imprisonment and pay a fine amounting to $10,000.
Similar abortion laws are already being enforced in 12 states, the Associated Press reports. Georgia state court blocked enforcement of that state’s 20-week ban in 2012, according to the institute. And it also is a mainstay of South Carolina’s economy.
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States have seen a spate of bills attempting to limit access to abortion.
