Despite string of victories, South Carolina's anti-abortion movement frustrated, wants more
COLUMBIA — In 2023, a new ban that effectively cut off abortion at six weeks of pregnancy became law. The all-male S.C. Supreme Court gave it the constitutional stamp of approval and abortions plummeted.
To some it seemed time for the anti-abortion movement to take a victory lap.
Yet on a gray January day with a thick layer of fog sitting over the Statehouse dome, the hundreds of abortion opponents gathered for the annual Stand Up for Life rally were more frustrated than overjoyed.
“We still got to come up here. Yes, it’s the Heartbeat Bill, but it shouldn’t even get to that point,” said 32-year-old Goose Creek resident Doug Meadows, referring to the official title of the state’s current abortion ban.
Many anti-abortion activists wanted the state to go much further than the “heartbeat” law to push fetal “personhood” legislation and a ban on abortion at conception. Some, like Meadows, hope it wouldn’t include exceptions for rape and incest. They’re also wondering why deeply conservative South Carolina couldn’t accomplish a total ban while so-called Bible Belt brethren like Tennessee, Alabama and Texas could.
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