Katrina Shealy and Penry Gustafson are on a mission. The former South Carolina state senators are still reconciling their far-right colleagues’ successful effort to oust them in the 2024 election cycle over their records on abortion legislation. Their final straw was having their mics cut while testifying against a current abortion bill that would be the most restrictive ban in the country during an October committee hearing, the women told Salon.

Now the conservatives are hellbent on challenging the politicians who pushed them out over South Carolinians’ reproductive rights.

“Somebody has to stand up and talk,” Shealy told Salon in an interview. “Is it scary in today’s climate to stand up and say what you think? Sure it is, but somebody’s got to do it.”

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