Overview

• New legislation for near-total abortion ban failed to pass in South Carolina and Nebraska
• Legislation to ban or restrict access to abortion failed to pass in Nebraska and South Carolina
• Nebraska Legislature fell one vote short of breaking a filibuster to advance a bill that would ban abortion around the sixth week of pregnancy
• Efforts to restrict abortion in South Carolina and Nebraska failed in their respective legislatures on Thursday
• South Carolina state Senate rejected a near-total abortion ban on Thursday