Accomplishments

For over 30 years, Palmetto Family Council has been the strongest defender of family, faith and freedom in South Carolina. Our record is unrivaled.

Victories for Life

  • Passage and signing of S.1 (Fetal Heartbeat Act) in February of 2021

  • Proviso restricting Planned Parenthood funding

  • Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

  • Telemedicine Abortion Ban

  • An ultrasound must be offered before an abortion can be performed.

  • Abortion clinics must inform their patients that unborn children can feel pain.

  • Unborn children are persons when victims of crime.

  • The abortion reflection period is now twenty-four times longer than before.

  • Any infant born alive, regardless of the circumstances (even if surviving an abortion) is now protected by law.

  • South Carolina will not be required to cover abortions under the new healthcare reform system.

Victories for Family

  • Volunteer Charity Care Act

  • Human Trafficking Act

  • The Right to Try experimental drugs for terminally ill patients.

  • Pornography is restricted on cable television.

  • “I thought she was of age” is no longer a defense for sexual predators.

  • The Age of Consent is now clear in the law and the South Carolina Constitution.

  • Sex between teachers and students is a separate, specific crime.

  • Internet predators are banned from Facebook in South Carolina.

  • 11-year-olds will not be required to be vaccinated for sexual diseases.

  • Laws against human trafficking were established.

Victories for Marriage

  • Marriage is defined in the South Carolina Constitution as for one man and one woman

  • Couples may enjoy a $50 tax credit for pre-martial counseling.

  • Efforts to change alimony laws to help the unfaithful spouse have been defeated.

Victories for Religious Liberty

  • Public Invocations Act

  • The Ten Commandments may be displayed in public buildings.

  • Students must be allowed to express their faith in school — at the pole and in class.

  • Commencement prayers at public colleges have been preserved

Victories for Education

  • Founding Documents Act

  • Exceptional Needs Tax Credit

  • Schools must follow state abstinence laws in sex education or lose funding.

  • Students may receive graduation credit for off-campus Bible study.

  • The Bible may be taught as history and literature in public schools.

  • Biology standards must allow critique of evolution.

  • Public colleges have backed away from assigning inappropriate Freshman summer reading.

  • Homeschool students may participate in public school interscholastic activities.

Victories against Addictions

  • Powered alcohol has been banned.

  • Synthetic meth and marijuana have been banned.

  • The expansion of gambling in the form of poker, bingo, raffles, gaming machines and casinos has been stopped.

  • A new casino in North Charleston was halted through the efforts of Palmetto Family’s Pastors Network.