In the United States, Republican efforts to restrict access to abortion continue. This week, Nebraska and North Carolina passed laws banning any termination of pregnancy beyond 12 weeks.
This is a clear change with their strategy of total banning, a policy that cost them dearly in the last election. In Nebraska as in North Carolina, even if abortion is allowed up to 12 weeks, the process is made very, very difficult, if not impossible. And the new rules are likely to challenge the few clinics that still exist in these states.