South Carolina had a bill jailing women for abortion. No Republican voted against it.

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Abortion was back in the news this week when South Carolina legislators debated what would be the most stringent abortion law in the nation. The bill would have banned abortion from the moment a pregnancy is “ clinically diagnosable ”—a term used to ensure the bill wouldn’t sweep in contraceptives or IVF. The law would have subjected women who have abortions to prison sentences of up to 30 years; criminalized the act of providing information about how to get an abortion, even in another state; allowed family members to sue women who had abortions; and eliminated exceptions for rape and incest.

The second hearing on the bill was a coup for self-proclaimed an