COLUMBIA, S.C. — A legislative effort to further restrict abortions in South Carolina has died for the year after Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate failed to reach a compromise in time.
On Wednesday, a day after the midterm elections, the state Senate rejected a restrictive abortion proposal that would have banned the procedure at conception without an exception should the fetus have a fatal anomaly.
The 23-21 vote came as no surprise after the Senate’s Republican leader explained, repeatedly, for weeks that the 46-member upper chamber lacked the votes necessary to pass a near-total ban on abortion.
