South Carolina House votes on abortion ban, adds exceptions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : They chanted phrases like "Abortion is health care" and "My body, my choice" and drew honks from passing cars.
49% :Law enforcement closed the House gallery Tuesday.
42% : Democrats said they didn't want to debate abortion again after the General Assembly agreed to a six-week ban in 2021, but Republicans decided to call a special session after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
42% : South Carolina leaders have watched those developments carefully, as well as events several weeks ago in Kansas, where nearly 60% of voters rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed the state's conservative Legislature to ban abortion.
41% : Republican leaders in the South Carolina House allowed the speaker to call the special session after the leak of a draft opinion indicating the U.S. Supreme Court would allow states to ban abortion.
35% : The South Carolina House appeared ready to vote Tuesday on a new total ban on abortion with no exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest as Democrats joined with the chamber's most conservative members to keep the bill as restrictive as possible.

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