How extreme are GOP abortion bans? So extreme that some Republicans are even daring to publicly question whether their colleagues’ Christian faith is sincere. That’s what South Carolina State Sen. Katrina Shealy did this week after her male Republican colleagues fought to remove exceptions for rape and incest in their near-total abortion bans.

As it stands, the Republicans in the State House passed an abortion ban last week that included a blanket exception to protect the life of the mother and exceptions for rape and incest up to 12 weeks. All of that is extreme. Women will suffer because of what South Carolina’s GOP lawmakers intend to do. But the point is that there are mild exceptions in the House version of the bill.

The State Senate, however, is dead-set on removing those exceptions entirely: ...