South Carolina Republican Sen. Sandy Senn speaks against a near-total abortion ban on Wednesday.
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South Carolina Republican Sen. Sandy Senn speaks against a near-total abortion ban on Wednesday.
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Sandy Senn believes that legislators cannot tell a woman what is best for her own life.
Who is she? Sen. Sandy Senn is a South Carolina Republican who represents the 41st district in Charleston.
- She took office in 2016 and has focused on issues relating to flooding, advocating for law enforcement, improving infrastructure, and offering vocational training to students in addition to a traditional high school education.
What’s the big deal? Senn has recently taken a stand on another polemic issue that is sowing division within the GOP: abortion rights.
- This past week, a near-total abortion ban in South Carolina failed in the Senate after the only five female lawmakers in the chamber united in a days-long filibuster in opposition to the bill.
- Senn was one of them, joining two other Republicans, as well as a Democrat and an Independent. Senn criticized Majority Leader Shane Massey, saying he was leading the party “blindly off the cliff.”
- This is the third time that a bill aiming to effectively ban abortions in the Palmetto state has been proposed since the overturn of Roe v. Wade last year. This iteration would have banned abortion at conception with few exceptions for rape, incest, and life-threatening…