On Monday August 8, Republicans in Nebraska narrowly failed to lower the abortion deadline to 12 weeks, reports Forbes. In this American state, women can therefore still perform abortions up to 20 weeks of pregnancy (in France, this period is 14 weeks).
On the other hand, patients and doctors can be prosecuted for abortions performed beyond 20 weeks, if a vital danger is not proven. This is the case of Celeste and Jessica Burgess, a mother and her daughter.
They were betrayed by their “private” messages on Facebook. A notorious precedent, judges the local press, while the Supreme Court no longer guarantees the right to abortion to American women. As a result, an increasing number of states are criminalizing abortion, as shown in the real-time map of the New York Times.
Police investigation following a denunciation
The local daily Lincoln Journal Star revealed the