Late Tuesday, Republican supermajorities in both houses of the North Carolina state legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill banning abortion at 12 weeks.
Abortion rights demonstrators gather in Raleigh, N.C., to protest the Supreme Court’s decision in theOn late Tuesday, Republican supermajorities in both houses of the North Carolina state legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of awith exceptions so narrow as to be meaningless. The law is slated to take effect beginning July 1.
Earlier this month, Republicans in the North Carolina legislature rushed through the bill with little discussion. Last Saturday, Cooper vetoed the bill at a public rally in Raleigh attended by thousands of abortion rights supporters. Cooper called the measure a “complicated and confusing monster bill” that makes patients “navigate a wicked obstacle course just to get care.
Cooper had called on four moderate Republicans to oppose the veto override—state Reps. Ted Davis, John Bradford, Tricia Cotham and Republican state Sen. Michael Lee—all of whom had vowed to support reproductive rights. Cotham had campaigned in favor of abortion rights as a Democrat butThe bill bans any licensed physician from performing abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy.
The bill also puts severe restrictions on access to medication abortion, especially for people coming from out of state. The bill would require people seeking abortion pills to have an in-person consultation with a doctor 72 hours before obtaining the medications in person from the doctor—requiring two appointments, three days apart.
The bill funds programs to prevent low-income women from becoming pregnant while at the same time funding middle- and upper-income women to stay at home to care for babies. The bill appropriates $3.5 million for long-acting reversible contraception for “underserved, uninsured, or medically indigent patients” while appropriating $10 million for paid leave for employed women.still allowing abortion in the South.
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