North Carolina governor vetoes abortion limits, launches override showdown
North Carolina’s Democratic governor has vetoed legislation that would have banned nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The veto came Saturday during a public rally.
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Abortion in North Carolina Hinges on Just One Republican Keeping Their Word
Davis, reached for comment, declined to say whether he will vote to override Cooper’s expected veto — despite his previously stated opposition to the bill’s restrictions.
Rep. Tricia Cotham — who campaigned as a pro-choice Democrat before switching parties last month — is another of the lawmakers who told voters she would oppose such restrictions. Cotham co-sponsored a bill to codify the protections of Roe v. Wade earlier this legislative session. There’s also Rep. John Bradford, who represents Mecklenburg County, which Biden swept by more than 35 points. He said in October, “I have no intentions, myself, of going back to Raleigh and trying to make the 20 weeks more restrictive.” And then there’s Sen. Michael Lee, who declared in a September op-ed, “I am against bans in the first trimester.”
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North Carolina Senate votes to override governor’s abortion ban veto
“They say this is a reasonable 12-week ban. It’s not,” Cooper said in the video. “The fine print requirements and restrictions will shut down clinics and make abortion completely unavailable to many women at any time, causing desperation and death.”
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Republicans in North Carolina override veto of 12-week abortion ban
The ban will further erode access to abortion in one of the last Southern states to permit the procedure past six weeks. Until now, abortion was legal up to 20 weeks in North Carolina, making it a haven as surrounding states passed near-total or very limited abortion bans.
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