South Carolina to become latest US state to restrict abortion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : In the absence of that ban, conservative South Carolina, surrounded by several states that have restricted abortion, had become an unexpected refuge for women in the US South seeking abortions -- to the ire of some Republicans.
43% : It would make South Carolina the latest state to limit abortion since the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to the procedure last year.
43% : Twenty-four states have passed or attempted to pass restrictions on abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year.
42% : The South Carolina Senate voted on Tuesday to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, despite an attempt to block the bill by the legislative body's five female lawmakers, including three Republicans.
32% : During debates around an earlier attempt to pass the bill, Republican state Senator Sandy Senn said "the men in the chamber" were metaphorically "slapping women by raising abortion again and again and again."
31% : "This is a devastating blow to South Carolinians and to an entire region where patients' options for accessing abortion continue to dwindle," said Alexis McGill Johnson, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

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