Stricter abortion ban advances in SC Senate, months after previous plan rejected

By: Skylar Laird

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: April 15, 2026

Words: 1,408

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Editor’s note: This article was updated Thursday, April 16, with the full committee debating but not voting on the bill.

COLUMBIA — Six months after senators rejected what would have been the nation’s strictest abortion ban, another panel of South Carolina senators advanced a bill that would still prohibit abortions from the beginning of a pregnancy but impose less severe penalties.

A subcommittee with a different composition of senators rejected a harsher version …

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