Recent events in South Carolina and Nebraska suggest that some Republican state legislators are pushing back against their party’s efforts to ban abortions. In South Carolina, six state Senate Republicans, including three women, voted against a near-total ban on abortions, despite Republicans having almost a 2-to-1 majority in the chamber. Similarly, in Nebraska, a bill to restrict the abortion window from 20 weeks to just six weeks failed after an 80-year-old male Republican senato, who previously supported the change, abstained from the vote, depriving it of crucial support. Republicans in state legislatures in Tennessee, Wisconsin and Kansas are also showing signs of concern about going too far on the issue of abortion. In South Carolina, for example, nine GOP state legislators withdrew their support for a bill that would have classified abortion as homicide. While anti-abortion advocates have been pressuring lawmakers to take a hard stance on the issue, there appears to be a growing divide between public opinion and the GOP goals on the issue of abortion.