H.B. 190, Dept. of Health and Human Services Revisions.-AB, a bill that features revisions to abortion law changes made in S.B.20, Care for Women, Children, and Families Act, was signed by Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday.
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.
On Thursday, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, said he would not defend his state over a new abortion law legislators passed in May. The majority of Senate Bill 20 (S.B. 20), the law Stein is referencing, goes into effect on July 1. Planned Parenthood recently filed a lawsuit against Stein and others...
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.
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.
Republicans have secured a supermajority in the North Carolina Senate and a "functional supermajority" in the state House — since they are only one vote shy and there will be at least a couple of Democrats willing to break with the party on most issues. So, a crucial question being asked is: what are Republican plans regarding abortion law in the 2023-2024 session?
With the 30 days over and all briefs filed, the state's abortion laws hang in the balance. Judge William Osteen, a federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush, is weighing the injunction on a 20-week abortion ban.
Gov. Roy Cooper has moved farther left on many issues since he began running for national office a decade ago.
