North Carolina Republicans introduced a 12-week abortion ban Tuesday, a move that would significantly narrow the window for legal abortions but stop short of the more restrictive bans that have been enacted in other Southern states.
after the landmark ruling, North Carolina experienced a greater spike in abortions than any other state.Roe
The 2022 midterms, in which a number of Democrats won competitive races after making abortion rights a central issue, were widely viewed as a danger sign for Republicans. Rep. Tricia Cotham, the lawmaker whose party switch sealed the Republican supermajority in North Carolina, has expressed support for abortion rights in the past but has not said how she would vote as a Republican.
Earlier this year, every Democratic member in the state legislature signed onto a bill that would codifyinto law. The legislation was meant as a showing of Democratic unity, though it was doomed from the start in the Republican-dominated legislature.he hadn’t ruled out voting for restrictions on abortion.“I lay down with it, I wake up with it,” state Rep. Garland Pierce , who leads the congregation at Bright Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Laurinburg, N.C., said at the time.
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