{"id":212948,"date":"2019-10-23T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=212948"},"modified":"2019-10-23T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:55:50","slug":"south-carolina-senate-subcommittee-heartbeat-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/south-carolina-senate-subcommittee-heartbeat-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina advances bill to protect preborn babies after detectable heartbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Subcommittee passed House Bill 3020, commonly known as a “heartbeat” bill, in a 4-3 vote on Tuesday. The bill seeks to ban abortions after a preborn child’s heartbeat can be detected, usually around six weeks gestation.\u00a0Doctors who commit abortions after a heartbeat can be detected could face criminal charges.<\/p>\n

There is no exception for so-called “fetal anomalies,” and state Sen. Richard Cash introduced an amendment to the bill to remove exceptions for rape and incest. That amendment was approved. There is, however, an exception that allows abortion in cases in which the mother’s life is at risk. In truth, it is never necessary to deliberately and intentionally kill a preborn child before delivering him or her when the mother’s life is in danger. The child can be removed more quickly and safely through an emergency C-section than an abortion, and when possible, doctors can work to save both mother and child.<\/p>\n

Another piece to the bill is that it requires abortionists to not only check for a heartbeat, but to have the mother listen <\/a>to it.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Why has \u2018heartbeat\u2019 just become a \u2018medically inaccurate\u2019 term? Abortion.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“You are in fact killing an innocent human being,” Cash argued<\/a>\u00a0about babies conceived in rape according to The State newspaper. “Whether you mean to or not, you are punishing a person wrongfully for something he or she had nothing to do with.”<\/p>\n

Democratic and pro-abortion presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg called the bill “scientifically and medically absurd – and morally repugnant.” However, science proves that life begins<\/a> at fertilization, and killing innocent human beings because they were conceived in rape is viewed largely by pro-lifers as a direct act of discrimination.<\/p>\n

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This is scientifically and medically absurd\u2014and morally repugnant. https:\/\/t.co\/WgBIuhHQVh<\/a><\/p>\n

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) October 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n