Facing time crunch, South Carolina Republicans negotiating 6-week abortion ban. Where it stands

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Republican legislators are pushing ahead with a plan to debate a six-week abortion ban in the final days of the legislative session after the Senate last month rejected a bill that would have banned the procedure almost entirely in the state. The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday will likely advance Senate-backed legislation, S. 474, that would ban abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks when most people don’t know they’re pregnant, and offer few exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal anomaly and to save the mother’s li...