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House Majority Leader David Hiott
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‘A unified Statehouse GOP has big plans for South Carolina in 2025. New fights await.’
‘What will SC Republicans do with a supermajority?’
Post and Courier
Nov 15, 2024
https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/south-carolina-gop-statehouse-freedom-caucus-2025/article_c2d8f01c-a2aa-11ef-b0d2-4308d8d0d817.html
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COLUMBIA — It was a triumphant Statehouse return for House Speaker Murrell Smith and his leadership team for freshman orientation on Nov. 14.
The House Republican Caucus not only defended its two-thirds majority in the lower chamber this past Election Day but added on to it. Meanwhile, the state Senate will come into the 2025 legislative session with its first veto-proof supermajority in more than a century, handing the GOP broad leeway to decide the course of South Carolina’s government for the next two years.
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Abortions are now banned after six weeks of pregnancy, while legislative leadership has shown little willingness to move any further.
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House Republican leadership will also need to confront divisions within their own ranks.
Hours before the House Republican Caucus released its proposals, the insurgent House Freedom Caucus — a roughly 21-member, hard-line faction within the GOP that has been excommunicated from the main caucus — introduced its own legislative agenda that mirrored many planks supported by their more mainline counterparts.
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There were notable differences between the Freedom Caucus and their counterparts in leadership.
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Largest of all was a proposal to push the state’s current abortion ban to a complete ban, including limits on access to mail-order medications at a time similar bans have come under scrutiny around the country.
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“I believe life begins at conception,” Rep. April Cromer, R-Anderson, told reporters.
House Majority Leader Davey Hiott, R-Easley, appeared open to doing something additional this session. [Open to doing what ??]
“We are 100 percent pro-life,” [Really ??? – Then why hasn’t the Republican-led SC House passed Personhood legislation more than once (in 2005) in the last 26 years !?!?] he told reporters. “And so I believe you’re going to see that again. We have certain groups of our caucus that led that charge, and they’re working on some things. So we’ll wait to see what they present to us.”
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– II To Establish Justice
is to ESTABLISH IN LAW (CODIFY) ALL HUMAN BEINGS are LEGAL “PERSONS”, BEGINNING at FERTILIZATION / CONCEPTION, with NO EXCEPTIONS.
‘History of Personhood Legislation in South Carolina (1998 – 2022)’
‘ROE v. WADE Opinion, January 22, 1973: “If … personhood is established, the [pro-“abortion”] case, of course, collapses, …” ‘
Christians for Personhood
January 5, 2022
http://christiansforpersonhood.com/index.php/2022/01/05/roe-v-wade-opinion-january-22-1973-if-personhood-is-established-the-pro-abortion-case-of-course-collapses/
‘Videos / PERSONHOOD IS THE KEY TO ENDING “ABORTION” IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’
Christians for Personhood
Oct 25, 2021
http://christiansforpersonhood.com/index.php/2021/10/25/videos-personhood-is-the-key-to-ending-abortion-in-the-united-states-of-america
‘Audio / ROE v. WADE – FULL SECOND ORAL ARGUMENT BEFORE US SUPREME COURT – October 11, 1972’
Christians for Personhood
November 18, 2021
http://christiansforpersonhood.com/index.php/2021/11/18/audio-roe-v-wade-full-second-oral-argument-before-us-supreme-court-october-11-1972/
God says,
Exodus 20:13, KJV
Matthew 19:18, KJV
God’s Law is the rightful just basis for man’s law.