COLUMBIA, S.C. — A proposal that would ban abortions past around six weeks of pregnancy and only offer limited and more narrow exceptions is back in the hands of the South Carolina House.
Some House Republicans are already expressing their displeasure with the amended bill, possibly setting up yet another battle within the chamber and across the lobby with the Senate, where Republicans last week failed to pass a more restrictive ban.
The House in August passed a proposal that would ban nearly all abortions in South Carolina, only allowing exceptions for the mother’s life and in cases where the pregnancy resulted from a sexual assault, but only up until 12 weeks of pregnancy. But senators then failed to pass a more restrictive ban, sending the House an amended bill that reset the ban to six weeks.
