South Carolina Democrats are defending a Republican lawmaker whose tearful comments in a committee hearing this week about an abortion law he had voted for went viral, earning scorn from liberals. Neal Collins, a state representative from the state's Upstate region, visibly fought back tears as he shared the story of how the 2021 "heartbeat" abortion law he'd supported led to a 19-year-old woman in his district nearly losing her uterus and facing the loss of her life weeks after enactment of the legislation. "That weighs on me," Collins said during the hearing. "I voted for that bill. These are...