Fri Jun 9, 2023 – 10:58 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A pro-choice Republican state senator has been officially censured by her own party for opposing a pro-life bill to protect babies once a heartbeat is detected.
The law did pass but a judge soon after put a temporary block on it.
The Lexington County Republican Party censured South Carolina Senator Katrina Shealy for her opposition to the state’s Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act, according to WTLX.com. Shealy also banded together with Democrats in 2022 to sink a total prohibition on abortion, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews.
WTLX reported:
Although the South Carolina legislature did pass an abortion bill on May 23 that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, Shealy and other women in the Senate pushed for a 12-week ban and joined Democrats in voting against the bill known as the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act.
Earlier, on April 28, Shealy and the other four women in the Senate – Mia McLeod (I-Richland), Penry Gustafson (R-Kershaw), Margie Bright-Matthews (D-Colleton), and Sandy Senn (R-Charleston) – banded together to vote against a stricter version of the law that would have banned
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