First Republic Bank rescue - Failed abortion bans - Arcturus Covid variant

Source: Pew Research Center

1. Summary
   Attempts to advance (not pass) abortion bans have failed in both Nebraska and South Carolina. In Nebraska, a bill banning abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected (around six weeks) failed to advance by a single vote. Republican Sen. Merv Riepe, who originally cosponsored the bill, abstained from voting. Riepe noted he nearly lost reelection to a Democrat who focused her campaign on abortion.
   
   In South Carolina, the Senate voted 22-21 to suspend a bill to ban nearly all abortions, with narrow medical exceptions. All five of the chamber's women, three of them Republican, voted against the ban. It is the third time in the last year the state has failed to completely ban abortion.
   
   Nebraska bans abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy and South Carolina bans the procedure after 22 weeks, but both states have become regional havens for abortion care, as bordering states have passed strict abortion bans. Despite those two recent ban failures, Florida and South Dakota have just succeeded in passing 'heartbeat' abortion bans.

   Highly-rated - last 48 hrs
   Abortion bans fail in conservative South Carolina, Nebraska.
   Associated Press (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 79% • 5 min read
   

1. Different political viewpoint
   Two red states each fail to pass pro-life protections by one vote.
   Daily Wire (Right) • Factual Grade 70% • 3 min read

1. Selected long-read
   The paradoxes of post-Roe abortion politics.
   Washington Free Beacon (Right) • Factual Grade 71% • 5 min read

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