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Reproductive Rights

IntroducedSenate Medical Affairs

Introduced by Bradley Hutto, District 40

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 44-140-10 So As To Provide That A Woman May Have An Abortion Prior To The Viability Of Her Embryo Or Fetus, To Provide For The Circumstances In Which A Woman May Have An Abortion After The Viability Of Her Fetus, To Provide For The Process Through Which A Minor May Have An Abortion, To Provide That Assistive Reproductive Technologies And Contraceptives Shall Be Available In South Carolina, To Provide That Pregnant Women Are Entitled To Quality Prenatal And Postnatal Healthcare, And To Expand Medicaid To Facilitate The Delivery Of Quality Prenatal And Postnatal Healthcare; By Amending Section 40-47-37, Relating To The Practice Of Telemedicine, So As To Permit Doctors To Prescribe Abortion Inducing Drugs Via Telemedicine; By Adding Section 38-71-48 So As To Provide That Health Insurance Policies That Provide Pregnancy And Child Birth Coverage Must Also Offer Coverage For Abortions And Related Services And Medical Procedures Intended To Permanently Prevent Pregnancy Including, But Not Limited To, Tubal Ligation, Hysterectomy, And Vasectomy; By Adding Section 38-71-49 So As To Provide That Health Insurance Policies Must Offer Coverage For Assistive Reproductive Technologies; By Amending Section 59-32-10, Relating To Definitions, So As To Provide That Reproductive Health Education Means Age Appropriate, Unbiased, Comprehensive, And Medically Accurate Instruction, And To Further Provide That Abstinence Education Can Be Taught But Not Taught As The Primary Or Only Way To Prevent Pregnancy; By Amending Section 59-32-10, Relating To Definitions, So As To Provide That Abstinence From Sex Before Marriage Can Be Encouraged As A Way To Prevent Pregnancy; And To Repeal Chapter 41, Title 44 Of The South Carolina Code, Relating To Abortion.

Where it stands

Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs

January 14, 2025

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Bill history

  1. Prefiled

  2. Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs

  3. Introduced and read first time

  4. Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs

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