Josiah Magnuson (born August 17, 1991) is a member of the

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from the 38th district, serving since 2016. He is a member of the Republican Party. In 2019, during debate on a

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, one of Magnuson's Republican colleagues in the South Carolina House, argued in favor of adding a rape and incest exception to the bill, and related her own experience of having been raped at age 16. Magnuson later distributed a series of postcards to each desk in the House that stated in part, “It is a twisted logic that would kill the unborn child for the misdeed of the parent.” In 2021 Magnuson was elected as the Secretary of the South Carolina

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. He also serves as 2nd Vice Chair of the House Agriculture, Natural Resources & Environmental Affairs Committee, and is a member of the House Legislative Oversight Committee. In 2023, Magnuson was one of 21 Republican co-sponsors of the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023, which would make women who had abortions eligible for the death penalty.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Magnuson, Josiah 1991 births Living people Republican Party members of the South Carolina House of Representatives Politicians from Greenville, South Carolina 21st-century American politicians