Tue Apr 26, 2022 – 6:31 pm EDT
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (LifeSiteNews) – Like most Republicans, the incoming Speaker of the South Carolina House has voted for a range of pro-life measures over the years, but in 2015 he successfully defended a Planned Parenthood abortionist against claims of medical malpractice for allegedly leaving parts of an aborted baby in the mother’s uterus and ignoring her pleas not to go through with the abortion.
G. Murrell Smith is an attorney and current chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and is slated to become the next Speaker this coming Thursday. He has voted for numerous pro-life bills, including to ban abortion at 20 weeks, to ban abortion upon detection of a fetal heartbeat, to institute waiting periods and ultrasound requirements for abortions, and to recognize preborn children as second victims in acts of violence against their mothers.
In 2015, however, Smith was also one of the attorneys representing Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc. and abortionist Harvey N. Brown against claims of medical malpractice by Kimberly Burgess, who alleges that she went to Brown for an abortion in 2012 that left her with “pelvic pain and vaginal
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