Pressure is mounting this week on abortion access in North Carolina. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has rallied residents and local doctors in an attempt to convince at least one Republican to uphold his expected veto of a bill, S.B. 20, that bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, down from the current 20-week restriction.
North Carolina state Sen. Kandie Smith, a Pitt County Democrat, holds up a sign that reads"Politicians Make Crappy Doctors" on the Senate floor in Raleigh, N.C., after the chamber voted to approve new abortion restrictions, Thursday, May 4, 2023. abortion access in North Carolina
After the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, North Carolina saw the largest spike in abortions, according to aCooper is expected to sign the veto during an abortion rights rally in Raleigh on Saturday. But Republican lawmakers hold a veto-proof majority in the state legislature. In order to sink the bill, Cooper would need just one Republican to vote against an expected override of the veto.
“It would require patients to delay their abortion care by mandating in-person consultations 72 hours in advance of the abortion procedure. Consultations are currently able to be done by phone in North Carolina. If you have to take time off from work, if you have to arrange child care, if you have transportation issues or you live farther away from a clinic — all of those things mean that this additional restriction adds barriers to the abortion.
“We’ve heard about patients being told to wait until they’re bleeding more heavily than they currently are, or wait until they are in much more of an emergency health situation than they currently are in order to get care. Hospitals are not interested in testing the legal boundaries to see what is permissible under a hostile state abortion ban, and it’s pregnant women that will pay the price.”
“If you look at the states surrounding and a little beyond North Carolina’s neighbors, they have all banned abortion with very limited exceptions: Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia — there are patients there who now don’t have access to an abortion clinic in their state and are forced to travel. I think North Carolina is one place that has been able to receive those patients and treat them and meet their needs.
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