Victims of rape and incest would no longer have access to abortion in South Carolina if a bill set for discussion in the S.C. Senate Medical Affairs Committee on Oct. 1 ever becomes law.

Sponsored by Anderson County GOP Sen. Richard Cash with cosponsors Sens. Rex Rice, R-Pickens, and Billy Garrett, R-Greenwood, the so-called Unborn Child Protection Act would replace the state’s six-week abortion ban with a complete ban at conception. It also would make abortion a felony on a par with homicide. Current exceptions for rape, incest and fetal anomalies would be eliminated.

Under the proposal, people could face 30 years in prison for a variety of violations, from performing an abortion or helping a person to get an abortion to taking a minor out of state to get the procedure. The bill, howe

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