Hey, it's pretty much A-OK in S.C.
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A lawmaker's comments questioning why abused women would return to men who batter them brought protests from South Carolina lawmakers, television viewers and victim advocates.
"I do not understand why women continue to go back around men who abuse them," Altman said Tuesday in the interview on WIS-TV. "I've asked women that and they all tell me the same answer, 'John Graham, you don't understand.' And I say you're right, I don't understand."
The interview with Altman came after the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday making cockfighting a felony but tabled one making second-offense criminal domestic violence a felony.
"The woman (who is abused) ought to not be around the man," Altman said in the interview. "I mean, you women want it one way and not another," he told the female reporter.