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South Carolina legislature passes 20-week abortion ban South Carolina on Tuesday became the 17th state to acknowledge an unborn baby’s capacity for pain and pass a bill to ban abortions at 20 weeks of gestation or later.“It’s a great day in South Carolina,” said Faye Hill, executive director of the Lowcountry Crisis Pregnancy Center. “I believe that more babies will be saved from abortion in our state.”After a six-year battle in the state between legislators, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act passed the state Senate in March. On Tuesday night, South Carolina’s General Assembly approved it 79-29. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican, said earlier this year she could not see a scenario in which she would not sign the bill into law. http://www.worldmag.com/2016/05/south_carolina_legislature_passes_20_week_abortion_ban
South Carolina became the 17th state to prohibit abortions midway through pregnancy, as Gov. Nikki Haley signed the new law into effect Wednesday.The measure, known as a "pain-capable law," bans women from getting an abortion past 20 weeks of pregnancy, unless continuing the pregnancy would threaten her life or the fetus has been diagnosed with a fatal anomoly. Doctors who breach the new rules would face jail time.Like similar abortion bans passed by other conservative-majority states, the measure is based on the idea that a fetus can feel pain about halfway through pregnancy. Anti-abortion activists cheered the Republican Haley for signing South Carolina's 20-week ban into law."Most Americans — women in higher numbers than men — want to end brutal late-term abortions in this country. Indeed, this is the latest victory amid a recent flurry of state-level pro-life activity being led by women lawmakers," said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.(remainder snipped)
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