South Carolina House approves total abortion ban with 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.
41% : South Carolina leaders have watched those developments carefully, as well as events several weeks ago in Kansas, where nearly 60 percent 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.
36% : The South Carolina House on Tuesday approved a total ban on abortion that includes exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.