Nov. 18 second hearing on extreme abortion ban S.323: make your calls!

Nov. 18 second hearing on extreme abortion ban S.323: make your calls!

Time Range For Action Alert: 
Oct 20 2025 to Nov 30 2025

your voice matters

Stop SB 323

 

A Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee is meeting on S.323 on November 18, 2 p.m. in room 308 of the Gressette Building on the State House grounds. 

S. 323 is an almost total ban on abortions, identifying it as the crime of homicide punishable by a prison term of up to 30 years for a person having an abortion or aiding in abortion.The League of Women Voters of South Carolina rejects this bill in its entirety.

Before they meet, legislators must be told that:

  • Everyone deserves to make their own decisions about their healthcare and their future. Politicians should not interfere with anyone’s medical decisions.
  • Healthcare workers should be able to deliver the medically accepted standard of care without fearing legal prosecution. They should not have to fear that a jury would find their assessment of “imminent threat” or “emergency” insufficient. This uncertainty in other states has already led to maternal deaths. 
  • Our First Amendment right to free speech includes information about abortion. Sharing information about abortion cannot be criminalized, whether it comes from a health care provider or other person. 
  • Lawmakers should be fighting FOR our freedoms, not against them.
 

The asks

1. NOW:  Make calls before the second hearing on November 18. 
    • It is urgent that you all your Senator and demand that they abandon this egregious attack on our autonomy, privacy, speech, and safety. Personal calls from constituents are the most effective means of influencing legislators!
    • Call the legislators on the  Medical Affairs Subcommittee and urge them to oppose S. 323. Even lawmakers who generally support abortion bans can’t ignore overwhelming opposition from their constituents.  
      • Verdin, Subcommitee Chair, 803-212-6250
      • Cash, (803) 212-6124
      • Corbin, (803) 212-6100
      • Fernandez, (803) 212-6024
      • Garrett, 803-212-6016
      • Hutto, (803) 534-5218
      • Martin,  (803) 212-6420
      • Sabb, (803) 212-6056
      • Tedder, (803) 212-6132
      • Zell, (803) 212-6040
2. Amplify this message by liking and sharing the Facebook posts from LWVSC. If you took photos or videos at the rally, share them on social media using #StopTheBanSC
 

Talking points 

  • S.323 remains unacceptable in its entirety. There is no amendment that could make this bill acceptable. It would treat any abortion as homicide with exceptions only for imminent death of the mother or loss of major bodily function.
  • S .323 would require that even the youngest rape and incest victims carry pregnancies to term. Girls are increasingly reaching puberty at very young ages, so this raises the possibility of girls as young as 8 being required to give birth, an exceedingly dangerous demand.
  • With S323 no one could decide for themselves whether to continue a pregnancy when a fetus is found to have no chance of survival. Senator Cash and his allies would have decided for them.
  • The bill would prohibit common methods of birth control, and endanger IVF. 
  •  The bill would demand specific resources for all “non-emergency” births from 19-37 weeks (ICU, two doctors present).Many South Carolinians can’t access those resources and even the few rural hospitals we have are in danger.
  • The requirements of this bill open the door to many prosecutions for miscarriages.
  • The sponsors of this bill have shown no evidence that they believe everyone is morally responsible for preserving other lives. If they believed that, they would be fighting for organ donation, perhaps even mandatory organ donation post mortem. This is only about controlling the lives of girls and women.

More information

Read more about the League position.
Joint statement with ACLU-SC and other reproductive rights groups.
Issues referenced by this action alert: 
Individual Liberties