A near-total abortion ban for South Carolina failed to advance after a majority of a committee’s Republican state senators declined to cast a vote. The State newspaper reports Four Republican senators abstained on the final vote after several amendments to remove the bill’s most severe measures failed during a hearing Tuesday afternoon. The bill had very little support from state senators, and advocates from both sides of the abortion debate said its proposals went too far.
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