I didn’t know it, though I didn’t know much about abortion law to begin with admittedly. Many U.S. states allow abortion until “fetal viability”, which is usually around 24 weeks. Sweden bans it after 18 weeks, stricter than a proposed 20-week policy in North Carolina. Spain and France allow it up until 14 weeks. Ireland allows it only up until 12 weeks. The UK would be an exception in Western Europe that allows it until 24 weeks, as many U.S. states do.

European countries are often presented as being less restrictive and more liberal than the U.S. and it’s true that outright bans are uncommon in Europe, but I had no idea that the window for legal abortion in many “progressive” European countries is smaller than in many U.S. states.