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  • 2022-09-16 (xsd:date)
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  • South Carolina Republicans ‘Voted to Remove Exceptions for Rape... (en)
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  • South Carolina Republicans ‘Voted to Remove Exceptions for Rape and Incest from Their Proposed Abortion Ban’ Claim South Carolina Republicans [in September 2022] voted to REMOVE exceptions for rape and incest from their proposed abortion ban. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting On September 15 2022, an Imgur account shared a screenshot of a tweet attributed to Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington), which claimed that members of the South Carolina GOP had removed exceptions for rape and incest from their proposed abortion ban: The date of the tweet was not included in the Imgur screenshot; recent tweets from Rep. Jayapal’s @pramilajayapal account did not include that same statement. Jayapal did publish the tweet , but earlier in the month, on September 6 2022. In addition to the date, a link included by Jayapal was cropped out of the screenshot: South Carolina Republicans just voted to REMOVE exceptions for rape and incest from their proposed abortion ban. Congress can’t stand by while millions of Americans lose their rights. We need to codify abortion access now. https://t.co/DpPsbYFYsn — Pramila Jayapal (@PramilaJayapal) September 6, 2022 Access to abortion remained a prominent issue ahead of the November 2022 U.S. midterm elections, following the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade . In late August 2022, two Republican candidates sought to quietly amend their stated positions on the topic to appear more moderate after a referendum in Kansas twice affirmed that voters overwhelmingly favored access to abortion; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) subsequently introduced legislation aimed at a federal ban on abortion after 15 weeks. An Associated Press article (Rape, incest exceptions out of South Carolina abortion bill) linked in Jayapal’s original tweet corroborated the tweet’s claims: A South Carolina Senate committee voted Tuesday [September 6 2022] to remove exceptions for rape and incest from a proposed abortion ban setting up a showdown among Republicans wary of passing such a restrictive bill. Democrats helped set up the fight, choosing not to vote with three moderate Republicans who wanted to keep the exceptions in the bill. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die The same bill without the exceptions appeared to fail in the more conservative state House last week before some Republicans maneuvered through a series of votes to allow abortions for rape and incest victims up to the 12th week of pregnancy. The Senate Medical Affairs Committee vote 9-8 with two Republicans joining all Democrats — to send the bill to the full Senate, where debate is expected to begin Wednesday morning [September 7 2022[. The exceptions could be restored during that debate. On September 9 2022, the New York Times reported on the proposed bill’s progress, noting that South Carolina Republicans haggled over ... exceptions for victims of rape and incest: The South Carolina Senate voted Thursday night [September 8 2022] to tighten abortion restrictions but failed to pass a total ban after a heated debate revealed the ongoing struggle among Republicans to define a cohesive post-Roe strategy. The chamber voted to gut a bill that would have prohibited abortion without exception for rape or incest, instead choosing to add more limits to the state’s existing law that bans abortion after six weeks. That law is temporarily blocked by the state Supreme Court because of ongoing litigation. The vote came after two days of debate in the chamber, during which Republicans haggled over whether there ought to be exceptions for victims of rape and incest. Under the state’s current six-week ban, rape and incest victims can receive an abortion before 20 weeks. The State Senate proposal reduces that time to 12 weeks. A CNN piece published on the same day described disagreements within the Republican party on abortion legislation ahead of the November 2022 midterm elections: The South Carolina Republican-led Senate was unable to pass a bill Thursday [September 8 2022] that sought to ban nearly all abortions at every stage of pregnancy without exceptions for rape and incest, instead choosing to amend the state’s already restrictive abortion law, after a handful of GOP senators joined with Democrats to block the bill. The failure of the near-total abortion ban spoke to the divide among South Carolina Republicans — and the chasm among Republicans in general — over whether abortion restrictions should include exceptions for pregnancies that were the result of a rape or incest. South Carolina House bill 5399, which passed the state House last month, had enough support from Senate Republicans to ban nearly all abortions in the state, but a filibuster on Thursday [September 8 2022] from GOP state Sen. Tom Davis stopped it in its tracks. Republicans did not have the votes to overcome a filibuster and proceed to a vote on the bill, which requires a higher threshold of votes. A September 15 2022 Imgur screenshot of a tweet by Rep. Pramila Jayapal suggested that South Carolina Republicans voted to remove exceptions for victims of rape and incest from a proposed abortion ban in the state — one of many fraught efforts by Republican lawmakers ahead of the November 2022 midterm elections. That screenshot did not include the date of the tweet (September 6 2022), nor was Jayapal’s link to a news article about the vote visible. Although South Carolina Republicans appeared to be divided, the AP indeed reported they voted to remove the exceptions in question from a proposed ban on abortion in September 2022. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged 2022 midterms , imgur , pramila jayapal twitter , South Carolina , south carolina abortion ban , viral tweets (en)
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