Nearly one year after the Supreme Court’s historic reversal of Roe v. Wade, states across the country are still hashing out where they stand on the issue of abortion.
This week, the popular stance has been to increase protections for the unborn.
In South Carolina, for instance, after hours of voting down hundreds of Democrat amendments, the state’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted late on May 17 to pass a bill that would ban most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which typically occurs around six weeks into a pregnancy.
The vote follows a failed attempt in April to pass a near-total abortion ban in the state and the South Carolina Supreme Court’s January decision to strike down a similar six-week ban passed in 2021….