NO URGENCY ON PART OF THE “REPUBLICAN” SUPER-MAJORITY IN SC SENATE TO PASS SC STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM PLANK ESTABLISHING PERSONHOOD FOR UNBORN HUMAN BEINGS
SC Senate Majority “Leader” Senator Shane Massey (“R”-Edgefield) has not said publicly whether he will even support advancing “abortion” legislation in 2025; much less whether he would support advancing legislation consistent with the SC State Republican Party Platform. However, Massey has previously publicly expressed his support for “exceptions”, and has even successfully proposed** adding “exceptions” to legislation in the past, undermining human personhood at fertilization.
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All Unborn Human Beings are People. Persons. Period. Beginning at Fertilization. Period.
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‘SC lawmakers to return to the State House. Here’s their priorities for upcoming session’
TheState.com
Dec 2, 2024
Excerpts [emphasis in red added]:
Lawmakers will return to the State House Tuesday and Wednesday for their reorganization after the 2024 election.
General assembly members will elect chamber leadership, pick their seats in the chambers, and receive committee assignments when they return. But the expected leadership already is planning what next year’s legislative session will look like.
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After meeting with the GOP caucus in Sumter in November, coming up with an a bill to further restrict abortion is not at the top of the priority list, Massey said.
Massey wouldn’t say if and when they will jump into an abortion debate, but a conversation took place in the all-male Republican caucus.
“It was a good spirited conversation as always,” Massey said. “We had a good conversation about it. *** I don’t expect that will be our only caucus conversation about it.”
House members have passed more restrictive abortion bans in recent years only for the pushes to stall in the Senate. Now with the 34-seat GOP supermajority in the state Senate, Republican may have more flexibility to push for a ban that starts earlier than the six-week mark of a pregnancy.
At least, that’s what House members want.
House Republican leadership has indicated that abortion restrictions need to start with the Senate.
“Some of those folks campaign on the fact that they’re pro-life, and some of the ones they beat, they claim we’re not pro-life,” House Majority Leader Davey Hiott said. “So let’s allow them to send it to us and we’ll take a look at it, because we’ve always been the one that started it, and it won’t sit over here if they send it to us.”
The hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus was more direct that the Senate should be able to pass more restrictions on abortion after the results of the election, which included the ouster of three Republican women who stood against the state’s current six-week law.
“I think the voters in South Carolina were very clear when it comes to life,” said state Rep. April Cromer, R-Anderson, and Freedom Caucus vice chairwoman. “We have three senators that lost their race solely based on their stand with the Democrats when it comes to life and I think that should speak to the current Senate. They gained a supermajority and there’s nothing that we can’t do for the people of South Carolina.”
[ Note: In addition to the defeat of the three pro-“abortion” female “Republican” Senators, four additional Republican seats were picked up in the 2024 Election, to increase the number of “Republican” SC Senators from 30 to 34 in the 46-member Senate. On Sept 8, 2022, a bill to ban 97%-98% of surgical and “abortion” pill “abortions” was defeated when a motion to stop a filibuster fell just two votes short of passing, with six “Republican” Senators not voting for cloture**** (one, Senator Rankin (R-Horry) had suddenly taken leave and departed the Senate chamber). So now, three of those six have been replaced (Gustafson, Senn, Shealy all defeated in June 2024), PLUS there are now four additional Republican Senate seats. The “Republicans” in the SC Senate are without excuse for not making it a priority, now, to pass pro-life legislation consistent with the written, published, Right to Life plank of the official South Carolina Republican State Party Platform. ]
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The Freedom Caucus pointed to the S.C. GOP platform in how it set up its priorities, including ending joint and several liability to make insurance rates in competitive, allowing families to direct tax dollars for their children’s education, closing the primaries, stopping diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in South Carolina, reducing the state income tax to 4.5%, and further restricting abortion access in the state.
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Both chambers now have Republican supermajorities, after the GOP gained four Senate seats in November. The House became a Republican supermajority after the 2022 election. Republicans make up more than two-thirds of each chamber, making them veto-proof if GOP members stick together. Also having a supermajority allows Republicans more flexibility to move forward with legislation without Democratic support and without the fear of opposition stalling bills from passage.
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SIX SC Senate Pro-“Abortion” RINO “Republicans” voted* to
PERPETUATE MASS-GENOCIDE by “ABORTION” in South Carolina
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BOTH SC HOUSE AND SC SENATE HAVE “REPUBLICAN” (?) SUPER-MAJORITIES:
SC House: 88 R, 35 D, 1 vacancy; 72% R
SC Senate: 34 R, 12 D; 74% R
However SC House Republican Leadership** has not indicated it will work in 2025 to implement the SC GOP Party Platform*** to pass Personhood and end “abortion” in South Carolina !
Christians for Personhood
December 2, 2024