Republican-led States Pass Controversial Abortion Bans Despite Legal Challenges.

South Carolina House Republicans have passed a six-week abortion ban, which makes abortions illegal once an ultrasound detects cardiac activity, with limited exceptions for rape or incest victims, the mother's lifelong health or fatal fetal anomalies. The Senate will take it up next week. If the Senate's GOP majority agrees to House changes, the measure will head to Gov. Henry McMaster, who signed the state's last "fetal heartbeat" ban two years ago. Democrats filed about 950 suggested changes before Republicans voted to limit discussion, then used every procedural maneuver in their playbook to prolong getting through them.