Op-Ed: How Pro-Life Republican Leaders Are Delaying the End of Abortion

The legislature of South Carolina, along with many other states, returned to session earlier this month. The issue of abortion emerged almost immediately as a core point of debate — and as a central point of tension between the Republican establishment and the conservative grassroots.

There is a clear divide between the establishment and the grassroots on the question of abortion. The former wants to continue regulating abortion as health care. The latter increasingly wants to finally abolish abortion as murder.

South Carolina still has several abortion clinics offering surgical abortions, even as other conservative states have managed to stop most abortions from occurring in brick-and-mortar abortion facilities.

There is an evident desire among South Carolina grassroots conservatives not only to shutter abortion clinics, but