South Carolina Is Trying To Expand Its ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law To Include Fetuses

By Tara Culp-Ressler

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On Thursday, a Senate committee in South Carolina voted to expand the state’s so-called “Stand Your Ground” law to approve the use of deadly force to protect a fetus. The proposal would grant pregnant women protection from prosecution if they were defending their “unborn children,” defined as “the offspring of human beings from conception until birth.”

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