COLUMBIA, S.C. (Wednesday, April 1, 2026) – By a vote of 18-5, the S.C. House Ways and Means Committee advanced a strong, principled pro-life bill offering state tax credits to individuals and businesses that support pregnancy resource centers, adoption agencies, and maternity
homes, among other non-profit pro-life and pro-family establishments in South
Carolina.
The bi-partisan legislation called the Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Bill (S. 32) advances now to the full S.C. House of Representatives and could be considered as soon as the week of April 12 when House members will return from their Easter
furlough.
South Carolina Citizens for Life President Lisa Van Riper commended Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Bruce Bannister, R-Greenville, and the members who voted in favor of the strongly bi-partisan measure. “We are encouraged that the Ways and Means Committee is continuing to build a culture of life by promoting the provision of resources to assist women in
choosing life over abortion for their unborn child,” she said.
In addition to SCCL, organizations supporting the Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Bill include Lifeline Children’s Services, the South Carolina Association of Pregnancy Care Centers, Palmetto Family, A Moment of Hope, the South Carolina Baptist Convention Center, the Catholic Diocese of Charleston, and
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
Initially introduced in the S.C. Senate by chief sponsor Senator Larry Grooms, R-Berkley, S. 32 unanimously passed the Senate last year.
A tax credit reduces the amount of taxes owed dollar-for-dollar. Donors who support
federally recognized charitable organizations are eligible for tax deductions which reduce the amount of taxable income. Tax credits, however, have the potential to bring in larger amounts of money and give taxpayers some say over how their tax dollars are used. For example, a business that owed $10,000 in state income taxes could designate up to 50 percent of the taxes to a qualified organization that meets the requirements of S 32.
South Carolina Citizens for Life supports the legislation as part of its Visioning A Way Forward from Dobbs to a Culture of Life which includes supporting policies that provide care for the unborn members of our human family and their mothers. Although SCCL would not benefit from the tax credit because it does not provide direct services, SCCL strongly supports laws that fund and protect charitable organizations
providing adoption services, preventing abuse, neglect, abandonment, exploitation or trafficking of children, and providing assistance related to carrying a pregnancy to term, preventing abortion, and promoting healthy childbirth.
The law requires eligible establishments to state in writing to the S.C. Department of Revenue that the organization “does not provide, pay for, or provide
coverage of abortion and does not financially support any other entity that provides, pays for or provides coverage for abortion.”
Here is the recorded vote on S. 32 by members of the House Ways and Means Committee.
