{"id":3602,"date":"2024-12-02T15:13:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiansforpersonhood.com\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T22:15:54","slug":"2025-legislative-session-both-sc-house-and-sc-senate-have-republican-super-majorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiansforpersonhood.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/2025-legislative-session-both-sc-house-and-sc-senate-have-republican-super-majorities\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Legislative Session: BOTH SC HOUSE\u00a0AND\u00a0SC SENATE HAVE “REPUBLICAN”(?)\u00a0SUPER-MAJORITIES:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
2025 Legislative Session: BOTH SC HOUSE<\/a><\/span>\u00a0AND\u00a0SC SENATE<\/a><\/span> HAVE “REPUBLICAN”(?) SUPER-MAJORITIES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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SC House: 88 R, 35 D, 1 vacancy; 72% R<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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SC Senate: 34 R, 12 D;\u00a074% R <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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However SC House Republican Leadership**<\/span> has not indicated it will work in 2025 to implement\u00a0<\/strong>the SC GOP Party Platform***<\/span> to pass Personhood<\/span> legislation and end<\/span> “abortion”<\/span> in South Carolina !<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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House Speaker\u00a0Murrell Smith<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
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\nSpeaker Pro-Tem\u00a0Tommy Pope<\/a><\/span><\/strong>
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\nHouse Majority Leader\u00a0David Hiott<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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‘A unified Statehouse GOP has big plans for South Carolina in 2025. New fights await.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘What will SC Republicans do with a supermajority?’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Post and Courier
\nNov 15<\/span><\/span><\/span>, 2024
\nhttps:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/politics\/south-carolina-gop-statehouse-freedom-caucus-2025\/article_c2d8f01c-a2aa-11ef-b0d2-4308d8d0d817.html<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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COLUMBIA \u2014 It was a triumphant Statehouse return for House Speaker Murrell Smith and his leadership team <\/strong>for freshman orientation on Nov. 14.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The House Republican Caucus not only defended its two-thirds majority in the lower chamber this past Election Day <\/strong>but added on to it. Meanwhile, the state Senate will come into the 2025 legislative session with its first veto-proof <\/span><\/strong>supermajority in more than a century,<\/span> handing the GOP broad leeway to decide the course of South Carolina’s <\/strong>government for the next two years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Abortions are now banned after six weeks of pregnancy, <\/strong>while<\/strong>\u00a0legislative leadership has shown little willingness to move any further.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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House Republican leadership will also need to confront divisions within their own ranks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hours before the House Republican Caucus released its proposals, the insurgent House Freedom Caucus \u2014 <\/strong>a roughly 21-member, hard-line faction within the GOP that has been excommunicated from the main caucus \u2014 <\/strong>introduced its own legislative agenda that mirrored many planks supported by their more mainline counterparts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There were notable differences between the Freedom Caucus and their counterparts in leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Largest of all was a proposal to push the state’s current abortion ban to a complete ban, including limits <\/strong>on access to mail-order medications at a time similar bans have come under scrutiny around the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I believe life begins at conception,” Rep. April Cromer, R-Anderson, told reporters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

House Majority Leader Davey Hiott, R-Easley, appeared open to doing something additional this session. [Open to doing what ??]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“We are 100 percent pro-life,” [Really ??? – Then why hasn’t the Republican-led SC House passed Personhood<\/span> legislation <\/span><\/strong>more than once<\/span> (in 2005<\/a><\/span>) in the last 26 years !?!?]\u00a0<\/span> he told reporters. “And so I believe you’re going to see that again. <\/strong>We have certain groups of our caucus that led that charge, and they’re working on some things. So we’ll wait to see <\/strong>what they present to us.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2024<\/strong><\/div>\n
THE SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Our Mission: Promote our Platform and elect candidates who will support it!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/div>\n
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Our Fundamental Principles * The Right to Life\u00a0 <\/strong><\/div>\n
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– II To Establish Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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THE RIGHT TO LIFE<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 We believe that the right to life is the first inalienable right, without which there can be no other rights.<\/div>\n
\u2022 We believe that all human life has intrinsic worth and should be legally protected at all stages.<\/div>\n
\u2022 We believe the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s protection applies to\u00a0unborn children who should be <\/strong>classified as\u00a0legal persons<\/span>\u00a0not as legal property.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The KEY<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0ENDING \/ ABOLISHING ALL \u201cABORTION\u201d<\/span>\u00a0in SOUTH CAROLINA<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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is to ESTABLISH IN LAW (CODIFY) ALL HUMAN BEINGS are\u00a0LEGAL \u201cPERSONS\u201d, <\/span><\/strong>BEGINNING at\u00a0FERTILIZATION \/ CONCEPTION,<\/span> with NO EXCEPTIONS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018History of Personhood Legislation in South Carolina (1998 \u2013 2022)\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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http:\/\/christianlifeandliberty.net\/2022-12-05-History-of-Personhood-Legislation-in-South-Carolina-1998-2022.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018ROE v. WADE Opinion, January 22<\/span>, 1973: \u201cIf \u2026 personhood is established, the [pro-\u201cabortion\u201d] case, of course, collapses, \u2026\u201d \u2018<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Christians for Personhood
\nJanuary 5<\/span>, 2022
\nhttp:\/\/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\/<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2018Videos \/ PERSONHOOD IS THE KEY TO ENDING \u201cABORTION\u201d IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Christians for Personhood
\nOct 25<\/span>, 2021
\nhttp:\/\/christiansforpersonhood.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/videos-personhood-is-the-key-to-ending-abortion-in-the-united-states-of-america<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018Audio \/ ROE v. WADE \u2013 FULL SECOND ORAL ARGUMENT BEFORE US SUPREME COURT \u2013 October 11<\/span>, 1972\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Christians for Personhood
\nNovember 18<\/span>, 2021
\nhttp:\/\/christiansforpersonhood.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/audio-roe-v-wade-full-second-oral-argument-before-us-supreme-court-october-11-1972\/<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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God says,<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Thou shalt not kill (murder).”<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Exodus 20:13, KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jesus, God the Son, says,<\/strong><\/div>\n
“Thou shalt do no murder,…”<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Matthew 19:18, KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n

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God’s Law is the rightful just basis for man’s law.
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Christians for Personhood<\/strong><\/div>\n
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