Legislators Choosing ‘Choose Life’

Peeler announces 79 House sponsors and 19 Senate sponsors

(Columbia)—Today, Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler announced that ‘Choose Life’ license tag legislation (H.3714) gained significant support in the South Carolina General Assembly when it was introduced late last week by Representative Gloria Haskins and seventy-eight additional sponsors. Last Wednesday, March 13th, a similar bill was introduced in the South Carolina State Senate (S.462) with nineteen sponsors.

Lt. Governor Bob Peeler said, “This bill is right on track and we appear to have a great deal of momentum building, even if Patricia Ireland and the group from the National Organization of Women are against us.”

Last Thursday, Patricia Ireland, NOW National President was in South Carolina and referred to the ‘Choose Life’ legislation in Friday’s Charleston Post and Courier as, “It’s really entangling the state in religious questions.”

Peeler went on to illustrate that the bill already enjoys wide bi-partisan support, “I am so pleased we now have twenty Democrats signed on to the bill in the House and Senate. With this early key support, we look forward to meaningful legislative debate in the next few weeks.”

Lead House Sponsor, Rep. Gloria Haskins added, “This is just the first step, and I know we have a long way to go…but we intend to finish what we started and have these tags available to all South Carolinians as soon as possible.”

To date the following Representatives have signed on to H.3714 as sponsors: Haskins, Loftis, Hamilton, Huggins, Simrill, Allen, Allison, Altman, Bales, Barfield, Battle, Bingham, G. Brown, Campsen, Cato, Coates, Cooper, Davenport, Delleney, Easterday, Edge, Emory, Fleming, Gilham, Govan, Harrell, Harrison, J. Hines, Hinson, Hosey, Jennings, Keegan, Kelley, Klauber, Koon, Knotts, Law, Leach, Limehouse, Littlejohn, Lloyd, Martin, McCraw, McGee, Meacham-Richardson, Miller, J. M. Neal, Ott, Parks, Perry, Phillips, Quinn, Rice, Riser, Robinson, Rodgers, Scarborough, Sharpe, Sinclair, D.C. Smith, F.N. Smith, J. R. Smith, W.D. Smith, Snow, Stille, Talley, Taylor, Thompson, Townsend, Tripp, Trotter, Vaughn, Walker, Webb, Whatley, White, Wilkins, A. Young, and J. Young.

To date the following State Senators have signed on to S. 462 as sponsors: Fair, Leatherman, Wilson, Grooms, Verdin, Ritchie, Ravenel, Bauer, Waldrep, Hayes, Ryberg, Peeler, Giese, Martin, Branton, Alexander, Hawkins, Courson and McGill.

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