{"id":40604,"date":"2025-09-05T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/sc-lawmakers-to-debate-abortion-ban-with-no-exceptions-doctors-face-up-to-30-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:30:12","slug":"sc-lawmakers-to-debate-abortion-ban-with-no-exceptions-doctors-face-up-to-30-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/sc-lawmakers-to-debate-abortion-ban-with-no-exceptions-doctors-face-up-to-30-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"SC Lawmakers to Debate Abortion Ban With No Exceptions | Doctors Face Up to 30 Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A9VvhxWkgiI?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Committee is set to debate the Unborn Child Protection Act, a controversial bill that would ban abortion without exceptions for rape, incest, or fetal anomalies. The legislation also proposes felony charges for those who perform or undergo an abortion, with doctors facing up to 30 years in prison if the fetus dies.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is scheduled for discussion on October 1st, with Committee Chair Rep. Danny Verdin promising ample opportunity for public testimony. Civil rights groups like the ACLU of South Carolina are pushing back, calling the bill \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and a threat to medical care, privacy, and free speech.<\/p>\n<p>This proposed legislation marks one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation and is expected to generate intense debate from both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Committee is set to debate the Unborn Child Protection Act, a controversial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}