An effort to advance a bill that would ban abortion around the sixth week of pregnancy fell one vote short of breaking a filibuster in the Nebraska Legislature on Thursday.
And in South Carolina, senators rejected a bill that would have banned nearly all abortions in a conservative state that has increasingly served patients across a region where Republican officials have otherwise curtailed access.
South Carolina's Republican Gov. Henry McMaster on Wednesday urged lawmakers to pass a bill that"the vast majority of our state" finds acceptable. He later clarified that he thinks most people supported a 2021 law banning abortion when cardiac activity is detected — which the state's highest court ruled unconstitutional, and which resembles the Senate version.
Cheers erupted outside the doors of Nebraska's legislative chamber when the last vote was cast, as opponents of the bill waved signs and chanted,"Whose house? Our house!" Among them was Pat Neal, 72, of Lincoln, who has been fighting for abortion rights since she received an abortion in 1973, the year the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision guaranteed the right to abortion nationwide.
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