COLUMBIA, South Carolina, April 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The South Carolina state representative who in support of a proposed heartbeat bill publicly described her fears and struggles as a pregnant 16-year-old told LifeSiteNews that her “platform” is going to be assuring young women that they don’t have to have abortions.
Melissa Lackey Oremus, a Republican representing Aiken County, told the State House in February that the sound of her unborn baby’s heartbeat proved to her that she had a human being inside her.
“It was the most beautiful sound to me,” she said. “How could I have a choice — as you all call it a choice — to kill that sound, to make it go away?”
Oremus told LifeSiteNews that many women, including women calling from far away, subsequently confided to her that they wished they had had someone to “tell them they didn’t have to have an abortion.” She said that she didn’t expect a reaction like this to her speech.
The state representative got pregnant when she was a 16-year-old high school student, excelling at academics. She had been throwing up at school, and when her friends suggested she might be pregnant, she took a test.
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