for example f you re impregnated from rape or incest and seeking an abortion, you have to report it to the sheriff in the county where the crime took place within 24 hours of when the abortion is performed. your doctor must also inform you that they will report the rape, too. which could be a huge deterrent if your attacker also lives in that town or in your house. doctors also have to rationalize why a woman needs an abortion if her health or the baby s health is in question. to avoid breaking the law. i guess medical evidence is not sufficient. the doctor s then had to keep a copy of your records for seven years after performing the abortion. you know, just in case someone might want to accuse you of getting an abortion illegally later, i guess. passage of this bill ended a filibuster by the state senate s five women senators including three republicans, a democrat and an independent. who were the bill s most outspoken opponents. that didn t matter to commander sorry, republican to
place in law before and the state supreme court struck it down. according to those five women senators on the floor of the senate last night language that was tweaked by the house members they believe opens the state back up to the same issues they had when the supreme court struck the bill down originally. now this new ban this new abortion ban bans abortions essentially after six weeks, before many people know that they re even pregnant. it does include some exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies, in some cases the health or the life of the patient, as well as exceptions up to 12 weeks for rain and incest victims, but they have reporting requirements for doctors to local authorities, which opponents say could discourage those victims from actually coming forward. it also includes a slue of differences from the current law, including adding penalties for doctors up to felony charges, fines, jail time and
that have voted for personhood or the six-week ban or any of these abortion bans, how many that have come to me, how many men in this chamber have come up to any of us women senators, and said how do you feel? joining us now is south carolina state senator margie bright matthews. senator matthews, thank you for making time to join me tonight. i would love to know how you came together with your fellow female colleagues in the state senate to decide to do this. it was a bipartisan coalition, can you tell me a little bit more about what it was like behind the scenes? first, thanks for having me. this is not the only issue that us five senators agree on, and this particular situation, we started talking about this years ago.
issues like affirmative action and gay rights, jessica schneider, cnn, washington. who bills to further restrict restriction abortions have failed in nebraska and south carolina. while several republican-led states have enacted sweeping abortion restrictions since the court overturned roe v. wade last year, the unpopularity of the bans around the country may be causing some republican lawmakers to reconsider their stance. dianne gallagher has more on the story. millions of women who feel like they ve never been heard. reporter: lawmakers in south carolina and nebraska rejecting extreme abortion restrictions thursday by the slimmest of margins, just one vote. for the third time since the u.s. supreme court overturned roe versus wade last summer the south carolina state senate where republicans outnumber democrats nearly 2-1 blocked a ban on abortion in the state with limited acceptance for rape and incest. the five women senators, three
limited exceptions for rape and incest. the five women senators, three of whom are republicans, led a filibuster where they spoke for days about biology, backlash and the concept of control. once a woman became pregnant for any reason, she would now become property of the state of south carolina. abortion laws have always been each and every one of them about control. in nebraska thursday, tears and cheers, after lawmakers killed a bill that would ban abortion around the sixth week of pregnancy, often before someone knows they are pregnant, a vote to break a filibuster failed by just one vote when two senators abstained, one of them the bill s co-sponsor, 80-year-old merv reed who said he did more research about moving the deadline. the six-week ban appears to be a winner take all position and the pushback will be strong, it will be immediate, and it will be funded heavily as now