A BILL TO ENACT THE ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT” “BORN BY AMENDING SECTION 2730 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORDS AND AS THOSE WORDS APPEAR IN “PERSON” “PARTY” THE LAWS OF THIS STATE, TO PROVIDE FURTHER FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF BEING”, “PERSON”, “HUMAN AND SO THAT THEY INCLUDE “CHILD”, “INDIVIDUAL”, EVERY INFANT MEMBER OF SPECIES HOMO SAPIENS WHO IS BORN ALIVE AND TO DEFINE ALIVE”, TO “BORN PROHIBIT THE DEPRIVATION OF MEDICALLY APPROPRIATE AND REASONABLE MEDICAL CARE FOR AN INFANT, TO CLARIFY THE RIGHT OF A PARENT OR GUARDIAN TO REFUSE TREATMENT THAT IS NOT MEDICALLY APPROPRIATE OR REASONABLE, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE SEVERABILITY AND ENFORCEABILITY OF THE PORTIONS OF THIS SECTION. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: SECTION 1. This act may be referred to and cited as the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act”. SECTION 2. Section 2730 of the 1976 Code is amended to read: 2730. (A) The words and and any “Section ‘person’ ‘party’ other word importing the singular number used in any act or joint resolution shall be held to include the plural and to include firms, companies, associations, and corporations and all words in the plural shall apply also to the singular in all cases in which the spirit and intent of the act or joint resolution may require it. All words in an act or joint resolution importing the masculine gender shall
A BILL TO ENACT THE “BORN ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT” BY AMENDING SECTION 2730 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORDS “PERSON” AND “PARTY” AS THOSE WORDS APPEAR IN THE LAWS OF THIS STATE, TO PROVIDE FURTHER FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF “PERSON”, “HUMAN BEING”, “CHILD”, AND “INDIVIDUAL”, SO THAT THEY INCLUDE EVERY INFANT MEMBER OF SPECIES HOMO SAPIENS WHO IS BORN ALIVE AND TO DEFINE “BORN ALIVE”, TO PROHIBIT THE DEPRIVATION OF MEDICALLY APPROPRIATE AND REASONABLE MEDICAL CARE FOR AN INFANT, TO CLARIFY THE RIGHT OF A PARENT OR GUARDIAN TO REFUSE TREATMENT THAT IS NOT MEDICALLY APPROPRIATE OR REASONABLE, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE SEVERABILITY AND ENFORCEABILITY OF THE PORTIONS OF THIS SECTION. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: SECTION 1. This act may be referred to and cited as the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act”. SECTION 2. Section 2730 of the 1976 Code is amended to read: “Section 2730. (A) The words ‘person’ and ‘party’ and any other word importing the singular number used in any act or joint resolution shall be held to include the plural and to include firms, companies, associations, and corporations and all words in the plural shall apply also to the singular in all cases in which the spirit and intent of the act or joint resolution may require it. All words in an act or joint resolution importing the masculine gender shall
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