S. 783 would establish equal protection of the laws for preborn babies, ensuring that the same homicide, assault, and wrongful death laws already protecting born persons are applied to preborn persons as well.

There were significant strides made toward that objective this week as an equal protection bill was introduced for the very first time in the South Carolina Senate, while an equal protection bill was heard for the first time in the South Carolina House.

The Foundation to Abolish Abortion strongly recommends against passing H. 4760, which would exempt women who willfully have abortions from penalties, fail to prevent the flow of abortion pills into the state, and decline to establish equal protection of the laws for preborn babies.

While the effort would have fallen short of true equal protection, Senate Bill 323 still failed in a committee vote, thanks in no small way to the direct opposition of Pro-Life establishment groups.

Despite the sixty-five Pro-Life regulations that have passed in Arkansas over the past decade and a half, abortion rates of Arkansas preborn babies are higher than levels before the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

The abolitionists faced opposition not only from hundreds of pro-abortion agitators who descended upon the South Carolina State Capitol, but also from Pro-Life groups who opposed the concept of criminal penalties for abortion.

State Representative Rob Harris prefiled H. 3537 the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act, which would abolish abortion in South Carolina by providing equal protection to every preborn child.