South Carolina's anti-abortion legislation goes too far

Since the June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , trigger laws and new legislation have changed the abortion landscape in America. But the post- Dobbs reality is different from what both sides expected. It’s fair to say that when the decision came down, the country was caught off guard. Abortion proponents, who had clung to the idea of established precedent, believed Roe v. Wade was safe. Pro-life Americans, who had lived with nearly a half-century of “abortion rights,” did not want to get their hopes up.

The ruling didn’t create a culture of life overnight, nor did it turn the United States into some oppressive state similar to that of Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale . But the massive victory has revealed something huge: the pro-life