Statehouse bill criminalizing abortion in SC sparks tense day during hearing over its future
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Many backers invoked Scripture. One proponent, pastor and Springfield mayoral candidate Trent Still, suggested “sinful empathy or ungodly and misguided sympathy towards women” led American society to be too lenient toward abortion.
Representatives with groups like the Texas-based Foundation to Abolish Abortion and Equal Protection South Carolina insinuated lawmakers might not get into heaven for voting against the bill or, at the very least, lose their seats for failing to support it.