RALEIGH — Republican leaders and Gov. Bev Perdue sparred over a budget resolution, unemployment benefits, and extending temporary taxes imposed in 2009. House committees rolled out their first detailed budget proposals.
RALEIGH — If House Bill 215 becomes law, North Carolina would join nearly three dozen other states in recognizing unborn children, along with their pregnant mothers, as potential crime victims. The bill also would signal the first time North Carolina law recognizes life as beginning at conception.
RALEIGH — Anyone attacking a pregnant woman could be charged with additional crimes if the attack causes a miscarriage. Opponents say it is the first time North Carolina law will define life as starting at the moment of conception, a point that was not disputed by backers of the law.
