Republican legislative leaders and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein put forward contrasting arguments Tuesday, as they prepared for a federal court hearing in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new abortion law. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles will conduct the hearing Wednesday morning in Greensboro.
Plaintiffs challenging North Carolina’s new abortion law are drawing a federal judge’s attention to newly released legislation that would tweak the law. Critics say the tweaks should not stop their quest for a court order blocking the law.
U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles will allow top Republican legislative leaders to take part in Wednesday’s hearing in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new abortion law. Plaintiffs in the suit want to the judge to block much of the law from taking effect July 1.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses recent developments in Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new abortion law. Kokai offered these comments during the June 23. 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
North Carolina’s top legislative leaders want to defend the state’s new abortion law against a federal lawsuit. They seek to intervene in the case as the suit heads to a hearing next week in Greensboro.
Planned Parenthood is asking a federal judge to issue an order blocking much of North Carolina’s new abortion law from taking effect. A hearing is scheduled Wednesday morning in Greensboro.
Planned Parenthood and a Duke Health doctor filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block North Carolina’s new abortion law. State lawmakers voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto to approve the law in May.
On Wednesday, Sen. Natalie Murdock, D-Durham, was among state legislators in attendance at a White House gathering ahead of the one year anniversary of the Dobbs decision. However, Murdock and her fellow lawmakers were not celebrating the decision. Rather, they were there to discuss their own states’ “hostile” abortion policies, according to a press release...
The North Carolina Senate is considering a bill that would make it easier for military and foreign doctors to practice in NC. It would also provide protections from violence in rural hospitals, among other health-related measures in the bill.
Top N.C. legislative leaders are renewing their plea for a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against the state’s abortion pill restrictions. Legislators’ attorneys responded Friday to arguments from lawsuit plaintiffs.
On Tuesday, both chambers of the North Carolina state legislature voted to override Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 20, “Care for Women, Children, and Families Act,” which restricts elective abortions after 12 weeks of fetal development.
