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Bortus bans in Nebraska and South Carolina failed to pass in close votes

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amid heated debates among Republicans

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confusing conservatives who have dominated both legislatures and further exposing the divide on the issue of abortion within the GOP.

In Nebraska, where abortion is banned after 20 weeks of pregnancy, an attempt is being made to ban it

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came up one vote short of breaking a filibuster around the sixth week of pregnancy. Cheers erupted outside the legislative chamber as the final vote was cast, with opponents of the bill waving signs and chanting: Whose house? Our house!

In South Carolina, lawmakers voted 22

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21 to suspend a near-total ban on abortion for the rest of the year. Republican Senator Sandy Senn criticized Majority Leader Shane Massey, saying he repeatedly called us off a cliff for abortion.

The only thing we can do if all of you, you men in the room, continue to metaphorically beat women by encouraging abortion over and over again

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it’s up to us to hit you back with our words, she said.

The Nebraska proposal, supported by the Republican administration. Jim Pillen, probably won’t go further this year. And in South Carolina, where abortion remains legal up to 22 weeks of pregnancy, the vote marked the third time a near-total abortion ban has failed in the Republican-led Senate since the U.S. Supreme Court last summer’s Roe v. Wade turned back.

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Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s policy director Katie Glenn characterized the failure of both proposed abortion bans as disappointing.

It’s a sign that legislation is hard, and there are a lot of bits and pieces that all need to come together, Glenn said.

The banned awesome supporters have promised political retribution.

Since the fall of Roe, both Nebraska and South Carolina have become regional havens as they have watched neighboring states enact stricter abortion bans. Conservative lawmakers have bitterly taken that comment in Nebraska, which has a long history as a leader in abortion restrictions. In 2010, it became the first state in the country to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Most vexing to some Republicans is that the backlash comes from within.

Nebraska’s bill failed Thursday when Republican Senator Merv Riepe, an 80-year-old former hospital administrator, declined to give it the crucial 33rd vote needed to pass. Riepe was an original co-signer of the bill, but later expressed concern that a six-week suspension might not give women enough time to know they were pregnant.

When his fellow Republicans rejected an amendment, he offered to extend the proposed ban to 12 weeks and add an exception for fatal fetal anomalies. Riepe pointed to his own election last year against a Democrat who put abortion rights at the center of her campaign: falling from 27 percentage points in the May primary, which took place before Roe’s fall, to less than 5 percentage points in the general election.

If my opponent had more time, more money and more exposure, she could have won. This made the message clear to me how critical abortion will be in 2024,” he said. We must embrace the future of reproductive rights.”

Riepe joins some other Republicans across the country who have noted evidence that abortion bans are unpopular with a majority of Americans. A nationwide AP VoteCast survey of the 2022 electorate indicated that only about 1 in 10 midterm voters, including Republicans, believed abortion should be illegal in all cases. Overall, a majority of voters said abortion should be legal in all or most cases. That includes nearly 9 in 10 Democrats and about 4 in 10 Republicans.

Still, Republican politicians who oppose the party leadership on abortion could become targets of political retaliation.

Opposition to Riepe was swift, with public rebukes from the governor and fellow Republican lawmakers. Anti-abortion groups demanded his immediate resignation. And the Nebraska Republican Party issued a statement warning that he would be censored. Riepe did not return a message on Friday to comment on the backlash.

Some of the South Carolina Republican holdouts shared last week that they had been given anatomical spine figurines from an anti-abortion group urging them to grow a spine and implement prohibition from conception.

South Carolina’s vote came with days to go in a session that began shortly after the state’s Supreme Court struck down a 2021 law banning abortion when heart activity is detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. Since then, both chambers have introduced bills to ban abortion at various stages, a disagreement that Massey, the Senate Majority Leader, had hoped to resolve by considering the House’s stricter law.

Fourteen states have abortion bans for all stages of pregnancy. Four other states have bans during pregnancy, but enforcement is blocked by courts. The majority of those bans were passed pending the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, and most have no rape or incest exceptions.

In Utah, a judge on Friday heard a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementation of a statewide ban on abortion clinics that takes effect next week. Planned Parenthood argues that the state law, passed this year, will effectively end access to abortion throughout Utah as clinics are unable to obtain the permits they have relied on to operate in the past.

In North Dakota, Governor Doug Burgum signed a ban Monday with minor exceptions: abortion is legal in cases of rape or incest, but only in the first six weeks of pregnancy. Abortion is allowed later in pregnancy only in specific medical emergencies.

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The North Dakota law is intended to replace an earlier ban that will not be enforced while a state court considers its constitutionality.

And on Friday, Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee reversed course and signed off on softening the state’s strict ban on abortion. That change came after several high-profile Republican lawmakers warned early in the legislative session that doctors and patients were at great risk under the state’s so-called trigger law, arguing that the statute did not include clear exceptions for when a doctor can perform an abortion. Services.