"Abortion debates and political clashes in South and North Carolina legislatures"

Lawmakers in South Carolina debated for over 12 hours on a bill that would ban most abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Democratic lawmakers filed over 1,000 amendments to the proposed abortion ban and warned that they planned to make fellow lawmakers debate every one. The legislation passed out of the Republican-controlled state Senate in February but has yet to pass the state House. The contentious debate on the abortion bill in the Palmetto State comes as lawmakers in neighboring North Carolina moved to ban most abortions after 12 weeks after the state’s Republican-led General Assembly overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.