Abortion ban faces fight over exceptions in South Carolina House - CentralMaine.com

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Law enforcement closed the House galley Tuesday.
45% : Protesters who support more abortion restrictions and protesters upset at the U.S. Supreme Court ruling removing protections for abortions demonstrate in the lobby of the South Carolina Statehouse in June in Columbia, S.C. Jeffrey Collins/Associated PressCOLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina House members began a debate Tuesday on a new total ban on abortion with no exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest even as some Republicans in the Republican-dominated chamber suggested they can't vote for the bill as written.
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.
40% : Republican leaders in the South Carolina House allowed for 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.

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