U.S. House Republicans drop vote on abortion bill: report

Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives, facing a revolt from female Republicans in the chamber, dropped plans on Wednesday night for a vote on a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, according to media reports. The measure, which the White House had threatened to veto, allowed exceptions in cases of rape where the victims had reported the crime to authorities. A planned vote for Thursday, which is the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe