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Legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will become law in North Carolina after the states Republican-controlled General Assembly successfully overrode the Democratic governors veto late Tuesday...
Republicans have pitched the measure as a middle-ground change to state law, which currently bans nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, without exceptions for rape or incest...
The vote came as abortion rights in the U.S. faced another tectonic shift with lawmakers considering sharply limiting abortion both in North Carolina and South Carolina, two of the few remaining Southern states with relatively easy access...
Under another bill up for a vote Tuesday in the South Carolina House, abortion access would be almost entirely banned after about six weeks of pregnancy before women often know theyre pregnant..
If both the North and South Carolina bans become law, combined with Floridas recent ban, it would be just devastating for abortion access in the South, Jamie Lockhart, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, said Tuesday...
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