{"id":275406,"date":"2022-09-05T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=275406"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:21:10","slug":"south-carolina-people-life-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/south-carolina-people-life-small\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina lawmaker says all people deserve life, no matter how small"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On August 30, South Carolina legislators voted 67-38 to approve a bill<\/a> that would protect<\/a> all preborn children from abortion, with exceptions for babies conceived in rape or incest. On August 31, as the House took a final vote and sent the pro-life bill to the Senate, State Rep. Adam Morgan\u00a0spoke out<\/a> in favor of the bill, the first to be introduced in the state since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em> in June. The speech featured an analogy between pro-life thought and a classic children’s book.<\/p>\n

Morgan recalled that he was reading his young children the Dr. Seuss book, Horton Hears a Who<\/em>. “I was struck with the very obvious allegory that is in Horton Hears a Who<\/em>,” he said. “If you don’t remember the story, there’s a bunch of tiny people that live on this little flower thing and nobody believes they’re there or thinks about them or regards them. They’re voiceless in a lot of ways. But one person hears them. And they’re yelling, ‘We are here! We are here! We are here!’ And nobody really cares or notices except for one guy, one elephant. And he tries desperately to tell everybody but nobody really cares or believes him. They mock him. They ignore it. They don’t really regard the people.”<\/p>\n