South Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits
Source: AP
Updated 12:01 AM EST, November 16, 2025
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Sending women who get abortions to prison for decades. Outlawing IUDs. Sharply restricting in-vitro fertilization. These are the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation being considered by South Carolina lawmakers, even as opponents of the procedure are divided over how far to go.
The bill faces a long legislative path and uncertain prospects, even if it clears the state Senate subcommittee thats reviewing it. But the measure up for a second hearing Tuesday would go further than any considered since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, as abortion remains an unsettled issue in conservative states.
Whats in the bill
The proposal would ban all abortions unless the womans life is at risk and eliminates exceptions for rape and incest victims up to 12 weeks. Current law blocks abortions after cardiac activity is detected, which is typically six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.
The proposal would also go further than any other U.S. state. Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison. It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
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Stargazer99
(3,384 posts)daycare, health care, medical care, etc while the WEALTHY WILL GO OVERSEAS FOR ABORTIONS. How many unwanted children will have psychological problems from forced pregnancy of the mother. There would not be enough adoptive potential parents to take care of all these. But who gives a damn about the hell socially the female and child will go through. This country is either stupid or wanting cheap labor in a few years.
And for you so-called Christians the Good Book also tells you to support those unwanted children yet it seems you have not gone that far in your "religion" for daycare, food, etc which you were also told to provide....Evil hiding as moral ideals...what a laugh
EuterpeThelo
(122 posts)and then there's the ripple effect of having so many people dumped into society who were "raised" by parents who didn't want them in the first place, have no understanding of a child's needs or who can't afford to care for them properly.
Some of these kids will grow up living in squalor or become homeless, be bounced around an already-overloaded foster care system or become the victims of other unspeakable horrors.
I'm first decan GenX (1969), and the jokes about us being feral and raising ourselves are not unfounded. I was one of the lucky ones, but the abuse that some of my closest friends endured at the hands of their "families" during their childhoods is serious nightmare fuel.
It's after Roe was decided that you start seeing a widespread societal shift from neglect to helicopter parenting. IIRC, one of the ripple effects of Roe was a drop in the crime rate. So, by all means, let's go back to a system where MORE children marinate in a chaotic, unstable environment feeling unloved and unwanted! What could go wrong?
paleotn
(21,175 posts)but this once again highlights the fact there are two Americas. One that's rational, fact based and civilized. The other, exemplified by this horrendous bill, is the 15th century. South Carolinians need to decide once and for all which America they want to be a part of. The choice would be obvious if they'd stop using that goddamned fundy religion as a guide. At the heart of the anti-abortion movement is fundagelicalism. Full stop.
TheRickles
(3,063 posts)They should outlaw condoms and BCPs, and then they wouldn't have to worry about whether or not anything implants.
Lonestarblue
(13,125 posts)Whether or not this insane law passes, I think the point is to pass this or another restrictive law to get a lawsuit to the Supreme Court, where the religious justices can further restrict womens reproductive rights.
Wicked Blue
(8,373 posts)and those who can't afford to leave.
Sexodus.
angrychair
(11,488 posts)About "Sharia law" or the treatment of women by the Taliban or in places like Saudi Arabia or Iran, they sure don't mind forcing women to live under religious rule as long as it's old white men making the rules because "Jesus".
Which I might add, the Jesus talked about the the Bible would not approve. Maybe some of the writers attributed to followers of Jesus would, as many writers and transcribers have repeatedly inserted language to denigrate women in order to ensure patriarchy and male dominance in society.
Literally all of this religious hate toward women is attributable to the way certain writers and transcribers choose to convey women's role in the story of Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Women are considered less then men for purpose of control and subjugation.