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.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped aVoters removed Sens.
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 tothis year in a special election and became the sixth member of the Sister Senators. Next year Devine and fellow Democrat Sen. Margie Bright Matthews will likely be the only women in the chamber.
Voters in Lexington County, conservative suburbs west of Columbia, said they couldn’t trust in Shealy after electing her three times.“She lost me on the abortion vote,” Alexis Monts said. ”And I don’t think I need to just elect a women to be represented equally.” Shealy has made small differences, too. The women’s bathrooms in the Senate office building were gray and drab when she arrived. She brought in her own art and knickknacks and stocked them with lotions and other items.It’s all been in an effort to drag change into a General Assembly where women have often been minimized and forgotten. On Shealy’s first day in 2013, the session opened with “Gentlemen of the Senate, please rise.
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