South Carolina’s Abortion Bill Is So Extreme Even Anti-Abortion Groups Have Doubts
MOTHER JONES
Abortion abolitionists have backed Cash’s bill while also complaining it doesn’t go far enough. “Senate Bill 323 still falls short of equal protection,” the Foundation to Abolish Abortion said in a legislative analysis on its website. “The prison sentences prescribed by the bill are weaker than existing penalties in South Carolina for the murder of born people.” In other words, the death penalty.
As my colleague Kiera Butler wrote earlier this year, the once-fringe abolitionist movement, dominated by militant Christian men, including a group that has become known as “TheoBros,” has been on the rise since the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022.