House Amendment 630
S 474 - Session 125 (2023-2024)
Abortion - Fetal Heartbeat

Rep. King proposes the following amendment (LC-474.PH0210H):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding an appropriately numbered SECTION to read:

SECTION X. This act may be cited as the "South Carolina Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act".

Amend the bill further, SECTION 1, page 1, by striking line 30 and inserting:

Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion ActSouth Carolina Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act

Amend the bill further, by adding an appropriately numbered SECTION to read:

SECTION X. Article 6, Chapter 41, Title 44 of the S.C. Code is amended by adding:

 Section 44-41-750.(A)Notwithstanding another provision of law, a physician who knowingly performs a dismemberment abortion and thereby kills an unborn child, unless necessary to prevent any serious health risks to the unborn child's mother, is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined ten thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both. 

(B) "Serious health risk to the unborn child's mother" means that in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition that it necessitates the abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, not including psychological or emotional conditions.