Abortion Funds Help Pregnant People. South Carolina Wants Us To Stop.

REWIRE NEWS GROUP

Additional efforts to criminalize abortion funds’ work in the state are on the horizon. The South Carolina legislation that would ban abortion completely—“The Unborn Child Protection Act”—would also make it a crime to assist pregnant people in traveling for abortion care. Those found guilty would face up to 30 years in prison.

Another Republican bill, the “Prenatal Equal Protection Act,” proposes to classify getting an abortion as homicide—a crime that is punishable with the death penalty in South Carolina—and helping someone obtain an abortion as a felony.

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