Author: Associated Press

House votes to restore abortion access nationwide

Washington update on House vote

WASHINGTON (AP) – The House has voted to restore abortion access nationwide. It’s Democrats’ first legislative response to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion. But the House bill approved Friday has little chance of becoming law, with the necessary support lacking in the 50-50 Senate. But the vote marks the beginning of a new era…

AP: Planned Parenthood sues over 6-week abortion ban in S.C.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) –Abortion access advocates have filed a lawsuit in South Carolina to block the state’s law banning abortion around six weeks. It’s the latest installment of a long legal battle over the so-called fetal heartbeat bill. Republican Gov. Henry McMaster signed the law last year but a federal judge blocked it after a Planned Parenthood lawsuit. Earlier this…