South Carolina’s House of Representatives have passed a bill that would ban most abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.
The move brings the state closer to being the latest putting the 20 week restriction on the ending of a child’s life via abortion.
House representatives voted 84 to 29 to approve the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” that bans abortion after the midpoint of a pregnancy except in the case of a woman’s life being at risk. If approved by the Senate and signed by the governor, it would make South Carolina the 13th state to enact the ban.
Doctors who violate the law could face fines up to $10,000 and three years in prison.
Similar laws are currently working their way through the legislatures of West Virginia and Mississippi.
A pregnant South Carolina woman attempted to kill herself and her three children by driving her minivan into the Atlantic Ocean.
Now police officials are saying that 31-year-old Ebony Wilkerson talked about demons before she drove away from the home according to her sister who called police. Daytona Beach stopped Wilkerson but she appeared lucid and didn’t qualify to be held under the state’s mental health act.
“The children were in the back seat, they were buckled in and were not in distress. Although the sergeant said she looked like she had some mental illness, she did not fit the criteria for going into custody under the Baker Act,” Police Chief Mike Chitwood told Fox News.
Two hours later, Wilkerson drove herself and her three children, ages 10, 9 and 3, into the ocean. Bystanders, police and lifeguards pulled the children from the van as it began to sink.
The children are in the custody of state welfare authorities.
The anti-Christian group Military Religious Freedom Foundation has forced the Air Force to remove a nativity scene from Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina.
The plastic nativity scene included traditional Christmas elements like Mary, Joseph, assorted animals and Baby Jesus. According to the MRFF, the site emotionally troubled some Airmen from the base.
The Air Force removed the display within hours of the anti-Christian group contacting the Pentagon.
Shaw Air Force Base’s public affairs office did not return calls to Fox News’ Todd Starnes for comment about why they removed the display. However, Fox News’ commentator Sarah Palin said the action was not surprising.
“We see stories like this every day and yet leftwing pundits still claim that the so-called ‘War on Christmas’ is a figment of the imagination,” Palin told Starnes. “The War on Christmas is just the top of the spear in a larger battle to marginalize expressions of faith and make true religious freedom a thing of the past.”
Union County South Carolina police have reported that the United Methodist Church in Buffalo, SC was vandalized with Nazi graffiti.
Sheriff David Taylor told WBTW that swastikas, graffiti and satanic symbols were spray painted inside and outside the church. The vandals also went through the church and ripped apart all Bibles within the building. Continue reading →
The anti-Christian Freedom from Religion Foundation attacked a teenager for his “open defiance” of their edict that Liberty High School in Pickens, South Carolina have no Christian content in their graduation ceremony.
Roy Costner, valedictorian of the 2013 class, threw away the speech he had prepared and submitted to the school and led everyone in The Lord’s Prayer. A video of the speech posted on YouTube has gone viral showing the crowd cheering as Costner set aside his speech. Continue reading →
