Posted on 07/01/2024 7:14:19 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. In return, they lost their jobs.
Voters removed Sens. Sandy Senn, Penry Gustafson and Katrina Shealy from office during sparsely turned out primaries in June, and by doing so completely vacated the Republican wing of the five-member “Sister Senators," a female contingent that included two Democrats and was joined in their opposition to the abortion ban.......
“Women, somebody else is going to have to stand up. Somebody else is going to have to come and make things right,” Senn said in her farewell speech on June 26.
Barring a woman winning a race in November in a district dominated by the other party, there will be only two women in the 46-member South Carolina Senate when the 126th session starts in January. No other state in the country would have fewer women in its upper chamber, according to Center of American Women in Politics. Women make up 55% of the state's registered voters.......
“When you’re on CNN and you're on MSNBC and you're on the front page of the New York Times and the front page of the Washington Post, you’re repeatedly sticking your finger in the eye of a lot of conservative folks,” Republican Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey said.......
“It can be exhausting sometimes. I felt like I was always being judged in a way my friends who are Democrats were not,” Gustafson said after her primary loss.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
It's time that the West rediscover its masculinity. You do not see Russia, China or Islamic Countries apologize for their way of living.
Right. The headline makes it sounds like it’s because they are women rather than because they want to protect the murder of innocents.
Blame the voters with moral clarity.
They were voted out because they aligned with the democrats to save abortion in SC.
The “Sisterhood” and killing babies comes first, so now they be gone. But hey, they got their Kennedy awards, so there’s that!
have a great rest of your week.
Uh, yeah! Especially if you “take on your party” and vote with the Democrats on a major GOP issue, airhead.
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