Today, Tuesday, November 8, everyone is focused on the 2022 midterms. Hopefully, if you are reading this you have already voted. If not, polls are open in South Carolina from 7:00am to 7:00pm. Please fulfill the call to be a good citizen of this world while voting based on the biblical values that come from…
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A Conference Committee on the House and Senate versions of H5399 has been set for Tuesday, November 1, at 2:00pm in Gressette 105. This meeting is open to the public. The conferees from the Senate are Republicans Sen. Shane Massey (Majority Leader) and Sen. Richard Cash. The democrat from the Senate on the committee is
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SOUTH CAROLINA BAPTIST CONVENTION OFFICE OF PUBLIC POLICY ACTION ALERT I want to thank everyone who took the time to call their Senator to encourage them to vote to recede on H5399. While we were unsuccessful in getting the Senate to recede, we were very successful in bringing people to the Statehouse (between 100 and
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SOUTH CAROLINA BAPTIST CONVENTIONOFFICE OF PUBLIC POLICYACTION ALERT On Tuesday, September 27, the South Carolina House of Representatives voted 95 to 11 to non-concur with the Senate-passed version of H5399. This vote sends a strong message to the Senate for the protection of life. As you may remember, the House passed a strong pro-life bill
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On Tuesday, September 27, the South Carolina House of Representatives will convene to consider changes the Senate made to H5399. H5399, as passed by the House, would ban abortion beginning at conception with the following exceptions: Life of the mother – as described in detail in content of the bill Rape – up to 12
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September 8, 2022 will go down in history as a dark day for South Carolina. After two days of sometimes heated debate, the Senate defeated the total abortion ban bill because of a filibuster led by Sen. Tom Davis from Beaufort. Senator Massey put up an amendment that closely mirrored the House version of the
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On Tuesday, the South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Committee removed the rape and incest exceptions from H5399. The only exception left is the well-defined life of the mother, with the conditions specifically spelled out in the language of the bill. On Wednesday, September 7 at 10:00 am, the full Senate will debate H5399. We are
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In Columbia, our state lawmakers have worked on legislation, H. 5399, that would protect life in the womb from the moment of conception with the only exception being the life of the mother. What many people believed to be impossible is now moving forward. What happens now? The House will go into session Tuesday, August
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