5/18 NEWSBREAK: S.C. House passes 6-week abortion ban

After more than 23 hours of debate, the South Carolina House of Representatives voted 82-33 along partisan lines to ban abortion access for women six weeks after detection of fetal cardiac activity. That typically is about six weeks after conception — and before many women know they’re pregnant. House members pushed earlier for a near-total ban, but conceded to a position more close to a Senate bill passed earlier this year. Democrats in the S.C. House filed nearly 1,000 amendments to the bill in an attempt to delay the vote....