Columbia, S.C. — Equal Protection South Carolina (EPSC) announced strong opposition to House Bill 4760 - Abortion Inducing Drugs, calling it a political distraction that fails to stop abortion in the state and misleads voters into believing meaningful action has been taken.
EPSC warns that H.4760 does nothing to reduce the supply, delivery, or use of abortion pills—the primary method of abortion in South Carolina. International pill providers remain beyond the reach of state law, shipments continue through the U.S. mail, and the bill explicitly grants criminal and civil immunity to pregnant women who order, posses, and willfully use abortion‑inducing drugs.
“This bill protects careers, not babies,” said Mark Corral, President of Equal Protection South Carolina. “H4760 is only a political stunt designed to provide cover for the very politicians who are keeping abortion legal in South Carolina. It allows them to pretend they’re taking action while refusing to establish equal legal protection for every preborn child.”
EPSC argues that by shielding one class of individuals from accountability, H4760 violates the principle of equal protection required by both the South Carolina Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment.
The organization is urging lawmakers to reject symbolic legislation and instead pass true equal protection bills such as H.3537 and S.783—laws that recognize preborn children as persons and apply the same legal protections to every human being from conception.
“South Carolina must not settle for symbolic legislation,” Corral stated. “We must pursue real justice—justice for all—by establishing equal legal protection for every human being from conception.”