A handful of South Carolina Republicans plan to reintroduce a bill that would define abortion as homicide — a crime punishable by death under state law. State Rep. Rob Harris (R) pre-filed the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act earlier this month,

South Carolina GOP lawmakers are once again attempting to classify abortion as homicide in the state, opening up abortion recipients to the death penalty. The state already boasts one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation,

A South Carolina Republican wants to reintroduce a bill that would make abortions punishable by death. The South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act is a bill that seeks to include "an unborn child at any stage of development" in the state's definition of "person,

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former South Carolina Sen. Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died Friday. He was 93.

The awkward exchange took place between Republican strategist Scott Jennings and Bakari Sellers—a former Democratic member of the South Carolina House of Representatives—as they discussed inflation. The NFL star was previously rumored to be engaged to his long-term girlfriend,

Kay Patterson, a former schoolteacher and one of the first Black lawmakers to rise to the South Carolina Senate in the years after Reconstruction, has died at the age of 93.