The 125th session of the South Carolina General Assembly is in full swing with a newly proposed bill, H.B. 3549, or the “South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023.” What does “Prenatal Equal Protection” consist of? According to ABC affiliate WPDE, the bill would define any unborn child, at any stage of development, as a “person.”
What this means, however, is that the “equal protections” being offered “would ensure that an unborn child who is a ‘victim of homicide’ or ‘victim of assault’ is given the same protections under state laws—including, up to the death penalty.” You thought you didn’t have rights before? How about you can be executed by the state for exercising your right to manage your own health and body?
This new bill comes less than two months after South Carolina’s own Supreme Court ruled the state’s six week abortion ban infringed upon citizens’ Constitutional rights to privacy.
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