Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking Section 44-41-610 in its entirety and inserting:
/ Section 44-41-610. (A) This article may be cited as the 'South Carolina Unborn Child Protection from Abortion Act.'
(B) It is unlawful for a physician to knowingly perform or attempt to perform an abortion and thereby kill an unborn child unless the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or the abortion is necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child's mother.
(C) As used in this section:
(1) 'Abortion' means the use of an instrument, medicine, drug, or other substance or device with the intent to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant for reasons other than to increase the probability of a live birth, to preserve the life or health of the child after live birth, or to remove a dead fetus.
(2) 'Physician' means a physician, surgeon, or osteopath authorized to practice medicine in this State and licensed pursuant to Chapter 47, Title 40. However, an individual who is not a physician but who directly and knowingly performs an abortion is also subject to the provisions of this section.
(3) 'Pregnancy' means the condition of a woman carrying a fetus or embryo within her body as the result of conception.
(4) 'Serious health risk to the unborn child's mother' means that, in reasonable medical judgment, a mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition that it necessitates the abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, not including psychological or emotional conditions. No such condition may be determined to exist if it is based on a claim or diagnosis that the woman will engage in conduct that she intends to result in her death or in substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. /
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