If it's Thursday, it's a tale of two political realities as more Republican-led states move to rollback access to abortion, even as more Republicans are defeated at the ballot box, perhaps due to it.

Plus, President Biden and G7 allies look to ramp up pressure on Putin as Ukraine's military readies a major counteroffensive after another night of Russian missile attacks.

And social media companies in the spotlight,

the Supreme Court sides with Twitter and Google

in a major case of whether their platforms were liable

for their users' malicious content

as Montana becomes the first state to totally ban the popular Chinese-owned app,

TikTok.

Good Thursday. Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Chuck Todd reporting from Washington. And we begin

today as three more Republican-led state houses have made moves towards restricting access to abortion

this week. And Republican legislatures in the South and the Midwest show no sign of easing their

push for these abortion bans despite public disapproval.

Last night, South Carolina state legislature voted to approve restrictions that if signed

into law, would become some of the most stringent in the country.

This would ban abortion after just six weeks of pregnancy.

It's important to note that a similar bill was actually struck down by the South

Carolina Supreme Court in January after that state court ruled it did not give a woman ample time

to even realize she was pregnant. The bill now moves to the Republican-controlled state senate.

All of this comes after Republicans earlier this week in North Carolina's state house leveraged their supermajority to override a Democratic Governor Roy Cooper veto of a 12-week ban, and it now has become law, or will be by July 1st.

If both bans do go into effect, a woman in the South or the Caribbean, will have to travel as far as essentially Richmond or Washington, D.C.

to access an abortion after 12 weeks, or I guess, Chicago or New York City.

Meanwhile, lawmakers in Nebraska are set to vote on a similar 12-week measure this week.

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