South Carolina Senator Shocked that His Abortion Ban Harms Women

Yay, the SC legislature is back in session

Our local NBC affiliate, WYFF News, reported this week on an Upstate woman forced to travel to Virginia to receive a D&C to treat her miscarriage. Christine Glang and her husband were trying for their second child, and at an early prenatal checkup, discovered Glang had miscarried. The hospital refused to perform a D&C during that appointment, telling her to come back in eleven days for another ultrasound, a common delay of care since the so-called Fetal Heartbeat Bill banned abortions and prioritized the electrical signal of dying fetal material over the health of the woman.

I’ve become somewhat numb to these stories, after reading so many of them over the last two years. What I absolutely could not believe was the feigned outrage expressed by South Carolina legislators, who are so comfortable in their misogyny they had no problem going on the record to express their apparent surprise. Senator Josh Kimbrell WHO SPONSORED THE ABORTION BAN and who presumably was a conscious human being with functioning senses through the hours and hours and hours of women and doctors testifying to the legislature that exactly what we are living through would come to pass posted this on Facebook:

He and his fellow patriarch bud Representative John McCravy went on in the comments of the post to describe what is actually happening to women as “pro-abortion lies.” I guess they’re going to gaslight us out of knowing we’re the 8^th highest state in the nation in maternal mortality.

We still have a Maternal Mortality Review Committee, but they are two years behind in their data, and so their most recent legislative report does not include the effects of ban (in place since 2023) on women’s healthcare. I’m sure Kimbrell and McCravy’s newfound outrage about maternal health outcomes will lead them to carefully review the Committee’s reports and begin to address the underlying causes killing women and babies (LOL). Let’s just hope they don’t just disband the committee altogether, as other states are doing to literally hide the bodies.

You’ll notice Senator Kimbrell’s district has the highest mortality in the state!

I’m sure the Republican attacks on DEI and the refusal to allow abortions for mental health reasons, coupled with their rejection of Medicaid expansion, will tots help these circumstances.

We’re still fighting, though. Hats off to the SC abortion providers bringing a suit against the state in federal court, arguing the ban violates their religious freedom to perform abortions and that the law is unduly vague (it is absolute garbage legislation). It’s grim right now, but we keep fighting. If you’re in SC District 11 or in Rep. McCravy’s district, give them a call and ask them to do literally any amount of reading on women’s health. They’re probably too far gone, but worth a shot until one day, maybe, we can vote in politicians that take their responsibility to all the people of this state (even women!) seriously, instead of having AI cut and paste anti-abortion special interest group language into bills that become laws that kill us.