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.
Four of South Carolina's Sister Senators, from left to right, Sen. Margie Bright Matthews, D-Walterboro, Sen. Mia McLeod, I-Columbia, Sen. Katrina Shealy, R-Lexington, and Sen. Penry Gustafson, R-Camden, stand in front of the Senate with their John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. The three Republican women Sister Senators were all voted out in their party's primary.
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 toThat gap should be alarming to anyone in South Carolina, said Sen. Tameika Isaac Devine, whothis year in a special election and became the sixth member of the Sister Senators.
Massey said abortion wasn't the only issue for the Republican Sister Senators. “Their opponents did a good job of painting them all as squishy and out of touch,” he said. Historically, it's been worse in the South Carolina Senate for women. There were no women there from 2009 to 2013, when Shealy was first elected. Her goals were protecting veterans, women, families, children and other vulnerable groups.. Forty-eight of her bills have passed, including those that require a review of every suspicious child death, ban subminimum wages for people with disabilities and require the state to come up with a plan to deal with increasing cases of dementia.
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.” Each of the Republican Sister Senators said the GOP is tougher on women because of conservative thoughts on gender roles. A man finds problems. A woman complains. A man is forceful and decisive. A woman is bossy and pushy.
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