By Holly Gatling, Executive Director, South Carolina Citizens for Life (COLUMBIA, S.C. Friday, July 13) -- South Carolina Citizens for Life, the oldest and largest single-issue pro-life organization in South Carolina, today commended Gov. Henry McMaster for continuing...
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“He will be missed”: Pro-life champion Greg Delleney retires from SC Legislature
By Holly Gatling, Executive Director, South Carolina Citizens for Life (COLUMBIA, S.C., Thursday, May 10, 2018) --Pro-Life champion Representative Greg Delleney, R-Chester, Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, tearfully bid farewell to the South...
South Carolina and dismemberment abortions
Editor’s note. The following statement was issued by South Carolina Citizens for Life, following Thursday’s vote in the state Senate. A proposal to ban dismemberment abortions lost out for reasons explained below. South Carolina would have been the tenth state to ban...
Abortions Decline in South Carolina More than 10% in 2017
Overall drop of more than 63% since 1988 By Holly Gatling, Executive Director, South Carolina Citizens for Life COLUMBIA, S.C. --Abortions occurring in South Carolina in 2017 declined by more than 10% from 2016, according to provisional data from the South Carolina...
S.C. Senate Medical Affairs Advances Ban on Dismemberment Abortion
By Holly Gatling, Executive Director, South Carolina Citizens for Life (COLUMBIA, S.C., March 1) The South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Committee today moved the bill to ban dismemberment abortions on to the full Senate. By a party line vote of 9-6, H3548 received...
Ban on Dismemberment abortions Advances in Senate Medical Affairs Committee
South Carolina GOP Urges Passage By Holly Gatling Last year, the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion (H3548) passed the South Carolina House by an overwhelming, bi-partisan vote of 89-17. On February 15 it passed the Senate Medical Affairs Subcommittee...
Dismemberment Abortion Ban Clears First Hurdle in the S.C. Senate Subcommittee
By Holly Gatling, Executive Director, South Carolina Citizens for Life COLUMBIA, S.C. (February 15) -- The bill to outlaw dismemberment abortions on living unborn children cleared its first hurdle in the South Carolina Senate today, giving hope that the measure can be...
South Carolina Gov. McMaster uses executive order to cut off funding for abortion clinics
By Holly Gatling, Executive Director, South Carolina Citizens for Life Earlier today South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster ordered state agencies to cease payments to medical practices affiliated with abortion clinics. By executive order, the Governor directed state...
NRLC-endorsed Ralph Norman defeats militant pro-abortionist in South Carolina’s Fifth Congressional District
By Holly Gatling, Executive Director, South Carolina Citizens for Life Exactly 64 years after the day he was born, Ralph Warren Norman Jr. was elected as the pro-life endorsed candidate to the 5th Congressional District of South Carolina. Not only that, Republican...
National Right to Life endorses Ralph Norman in SC 5 Special Election
WASHINGTON – National Right to Life has endorsed Ralph Norman (R) following the special election in South Carolina's 5th congressional district to replace former Rep. Mick Mulvaney, who was confirmed as the new Director of the Office of Management and Budget....