Supreme Court Rejects North Carolina Appeal to Revive Abortion LawThe US Supreme Court on Monday let stand an appeals courtdecision blocking a North Carolina law...Richey, Warren
Updated May 13, 2023 3:33pm EDT Abortion Laws Associated Pressarticle Roy Cooper, governor of North Carolina, speaks about investments in affordable, accessible high-speed internet at the Carole Hoefener Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Photographer...
In the last few months, North Carolina has become a haven for abortion access in the south. It is one of the few states in the region that has not restricted it since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Abortion is legal in North Carolina up to 20 weeks of pregnancy....
Does the North Carolina Constitution safeguard a woman's right to make "the highly personal choice whether or not to terminate her pregnancy"? There has been no definitive ruling from the state courts, so this interesting question may be admitted as open. However, there are two critical premise...
Swiping at anti-abortion laws, former “Friends’ star Jennifer Aniston, echoing a moment during the series where her character Rachel told Ross “no uterus, no opinion,” wrote on Instagram, “I repeat … no uterus, no opinion.”
Speculation is brewing in North Carolina that a Democratic state legislator may change her party affiliation. Republicans have scheduled a Wednesday news conference with Democrat Rep. Tricia Cotham of Mecklenburg County.
Republicans have pitched the measure as a middle-ground change to state abortion laws developed after months of private negotiations between House and Senate GOP members. It adds exceptions to the 12-week ban, extending the limit through 20 weeks for rape and incest and through 24 weeks for "...
Whoever wins will likely have huge sway in North Carolina politics, as the court is almost certain to hear more election-related cases and possibly cases on abortion. With the stakes as high as they are, these won’t be races either party is leaving to chance. ...
Did video of Cawthorn violate NC’s ‘revenge porn’ laws? | Eastern North Carolina Now On May 4, U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a Republican who represents North Carolina’s far west in Congress, commented on Twitter that the release of a sexual video of him was “blackmail.”...
the GOP assumed total control of state government for the first time in more than a century. They put it to use quickly, enacting a series of tax cuts, blocking the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, passing new anti-abortion laws, and imposing an array of new restrictions on voti...