

Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.During September 22, 2021–February 6, 2022, approximately 82.6 million U.S. James Pollard is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. And you will forget about them once they are born.”Īssociated Press writer Jeffrey Collins contributed to this report.

“But you don’t care because you’ve done your job. “You want children raising children who will most likely suffer domestic violence and live in poverty," Shealy said in a Senate floor speech. Katrina Shealy said Wednesday that her colleagues had failed to support her legislation around improving foster care, preventing sex trafficking and giving free school meals. It has to be real, sustained support.”īut one of the three Republican women in the upper chamber threw cold water on the likelihood that these conversations will be backed up with action. “Providing the money for the infrastructure for childcare in general would be a great first step,” she said.

Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey told reporters Thursday evening he hopes the House understands the Senate lacked the votes for a “more aggressive” proposal and passes the upper chamber’s bill. “We were not called back to pass a bill we already have-we were called to re-write the laws of our state after the Dobbs decision.” “This amended version does not advance the cause of life in SC and I cannot concur with a bill that does nothing,” McCravy said. Tom Davis, who successfully filibustered a ban on almost all abortions. The Senate's “pro-life majority,” he said, should stand against the “Beaufort Bully," referring to Republican Sen. John McCravy, who chaired the House committee tasked with drafting the ban, blasted the new proposal in a Friday statement. It also includes exceptions for the life and health of the mother, and fatal fetal anomaly approved by two doctors. The new bill would also require that police receive the aborted fetus' collected DNA. The Senate changed the currently blocked six-week ban by cutting the period during which pregnancies resulting from rape or incest may be aborted from 20 weeks to about 12 weeks.
