South Carolina’s Abortion Bill Is So Extreme Even Anti-Abortion Groups Have Doubts
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“As my colleague Kiera Butler wrote earlier this year, the once-fringe abolitionist movement—dominated by militant Christian men, including a group that has become known as “TheoBros”—has been on the rise since the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022:
The most effective arenas for abortion abolitionists are at the state level; in at least 17 states, they have worked with lawmakers to introduce bills that would treat abortion as homicide, according to the extremism watchdog group Political Research Associates. In 2023, the Colorado Times Recorder reported that abolitionist groups were urging supporters to run for local office. “You need one of them to carry this [abortion abolition resolution] because they’ve got to introduce it, or you can run for that and become part of your County Republican executive committee,” the Foundation to Abolish Abortion’s [Bradley] Pierce said at a 2023 rally in Kansas.”