Roe v. Wade

Budd, Tillis organize letter demanding Josh Stein protect crisis pregnancy centers

North Carolina’s U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis and U.S. Rep. Ted Budd, who is currently running to join Tillis in the U.S. Senate, organized a letter, sent on July 29, demanding that N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein take action to protect crisis pregnancy centers in the state. Other signatories joining the letter were fellow N.C. Republicans U.S....

Progressives should blame themselves for end of Roe

Despite the lamenting by progressives over the recent Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson decision, and the end of Roe v. Wade, they have only themselves to blame. For over a decade, the progressive movement failed to codify accessibility to safe, rare, and legal abortion. Instead of strengthening their position and minimizing their reliance on the weak judicial argument...

Joshua Peters

Hillsborough Catholic parish vandalized

Early the morning of Sunday July 3, vandals targeted Holy Family Catholic Church in Hillsborough, N.C., with anti-Christian and pro-abortion messages in bright yellow spray paint. Those arriving for the morning services had to walk past a large message of “F*CK THE CHURCH,” which was painted directly in between the two main entrances. In the...

Scheme to strip Supreme Court of jurisdiction would be an attack on our democracy

On Monday, I came across something in the Raleigh News & Observer that read like a letter to the editor from the angry uncle you try to avoid talking with at family reunions. But then I realized it was just Gene Nichol. Nichol, a law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, was irate about last week’s U.S....

Andy Jackson

‘Roe v. Wade’ is officially overturned, protecting the integrity of the Court

It’s official, the Supreme Court of the United States has officially overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, ending the nationwide constitutional right to an abortion after more than 50 years. The decision is historic in more ways than one, as in the lead up there was an unprecedented leak of an internal draft, threatening the...

Brittany Raymer

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U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, returning abortion law to states

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the precedent surrounding abortion law in the United States that guaranteed women access to abortions through a constitutional right to privacy. Both the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 and the Planned Parenthood v. Casey case of 1992 were overturned. The court ruled 6-3 to uphold a law banning...

Abortion law in N.C. after Roe

After the well-publicized leak of a draft decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, it appears a majority of the court could overturn the current federal precedent — as laid out in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The decision is likely to be released in May or June. If the justices follow through on provisions of the draft opinion, states would begin to operate under rules of their own, whether already passed or new legislation inspired by the change in federal law.

Political experts: Pending abortion ruling unlikely to sway N.C. midterm elections

The U.S. Supreme Court’s pending ruling on national abortion law is unlikely to significantly impact races up and down the ballot for Congress and the General Assembly in North Carolina, political experts say. That analysis lands despite claims by Democrats that they have found an issue to run on headed into a midterm cycle that is...

David N. Bass