{"id":574841,"date":"2023-05-17T04:11:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T01:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/n-c-gop-overrides-veto-of-12-week-abortion-limit\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T04:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T01:11:17","slug":"n-c-gop-overrides-veto-of-12-week-abortion-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/n-c-gop-overrides-veto-of-12-week-abortion-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"#N.C. GOP overrides veto of 12-week abortion limit"},"content":{"rendered":"
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will become law in North Carolina after the state\u2019s Republican-controlled General<\/a> Assembly successfully overrode the Democratic governor\u2019s veto late Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The House completed the second and final part of the override vote Tuesday night after a similar three-fifths majority voted for the override earlier Tuesday in the Senate. The outcome represents a major victory for Republican legislative leaders who needed every GOP member on board to enact the law over Gov. Roy Cooper\u2019s opposition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cooper vetoed the measure<\/a> over the weekend after spending last week travel<\/a>ing around the state to convince at least one Republican to uphold his expected veto.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The vote came as abortion rights in the U.S. faced another tectonic shift with lawmakers considering sharply limiting abortion both in North Carolina<\/a> and South Carolina<\/a>, two of the few remaining Southern states with relatively easy access.<\/p>\n

Nebraska joined the two states in debating abortion restrictions Tuesday that are possible because the U.S. Supreme Court last year struck down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling<\/a>, which established a nationwide right to abortion.<\/p>\n

Under another bill up for a vote<\/a> Tuesday in the South Carolina House, abortion access would be almost entirely banned after about six weeks of pregnancy \u2014 before women often know they\u2019re pregnant. The South Carolina state Senate previously rejected a proposal to nearly outlaw abortions.<\/p>\n

Abortion is banned or severely restricted in much of the South and is now banned throughout pregnancy in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. In Georgia, it\u2019s allowed only in the first six weeks.<\/p>\n

The Carolinas, Florida and Virginia are now the main destinations in the region for those seeking legal abortions<\/a>. Florida has a ban that kicks in 15 weeks into pregnancy. Under a recent law, that would tighten to six weeks pending a court ruling. Further west, women often travel to Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico or Colorado.<\/p>\n

Nationally, bans on abortion throughout pregnancy are in effect in 14 states.<\/p>\n

If both the North and South Carolina bans become law, combined with Florida\u2019s recent ban, \u201cit would be just devastating for abortion access in the South,\u201d Jamie Lockhart, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

During the North Carolina Senate debate, Republicans said Cooper ignored $160 million within the measure that would boost funding to increase contraceptive services, reduce infant and maternal mortality and provide paid maternity leave for state employees and teachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorth Carolinians watching this debate, you are bearing witness to exaggerated and extremist objections from some Democrats,\u201d Republican Sen. Vickie Sawyer of Iredell County said. \u201cTheir anger is that this bill is mainstream and a common-sense app<\/a>roach to a very difficult topic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats focused on details of the abortion rules, which they said would place barriers between women and their doctors, leaving those who are pregnant in danger.<\/p>\n

And the 12-week cutoff means that young women will have potentially only a couple of weeks to decide whether an abortion is the right decision, leading them to continue with unwanted pregnancies, Democratic Sen. Natasha Marcus of Mecklenburg County said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill is a slap in the face. It is a muzzle over our mouths, and it is a straitjacket on our bodies,\u201d Marcus said. After the Senate vote, loud chants of \u201cShame!\u201d could be heard outside the chamber doors.<\/p>\n

Anti-abortion protesters who arrived hours before the vote packed the North Carolina Senate gallery, with about 150 supporters of the proposed ban holding identical \u201cVote Pro-Life\u201d signs.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many Republicans have just keeled over from pressure from all the groups who are just filled with hate and are pushing things that are going against God,\u201d said Sharon Dooley, 63, of Garner, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

In South Carolina, the impasse dates back to a special session last fall when House lawmakers demanding a near-total ban did not meet to negotiate with their Senate counterparts pushing for a ban around six weeks.<\/p>\n

The stalemate persisted even after the state Supreme Court in January struck down a previous law banning abortions once cardiac activity is detected.<\/p>\n

That decision left abortion legal through 22 weeks of pregnancy. A sharp increase in abortions since then has rankled Republicans.<\/p>\n

The House was weighing a Senate bill similar to the one they denied last year. The measure would ban abortion when an ultrasound detects cardiac activity, around six weeks.<\/p>\n

A late night is expected even after Republicans invoked rules to limit debate. House Speaker Murrell Smith has said the chamber will not adjourn until the measure gets approval. Democrats slowed the process Tuesday by speaking for all three allotted minutes on each of their hundreds of amendments and forcing other procedural votes.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers in Nebraska were debating a proposal that would ban abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy<\/a>. The proposal comes after lawmakers rejected a bill last month that would have banned abortion after cardiac activity is detected.<\/p>\n

This latest proposal is tacked onto a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Conservatives in Nebraska\u2019s unique single-chamber, officially nonpartisan Legislature will need 33 out of 49 votes for these proposals to advance.<\/p>\n

In Montana, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte\u2019s office announced Tuesday that he had signed into law a bill that makes performing the abortion method most commonly used after 15 weeks of gestation a felony<\/a>. Planned Parenthood of Montana asked a judge to temporarily block the ban on dilation and evacuation abortions.<\/p>\n

A separate challenge to abortion access will be considered Wednesday, when a federal appeals court hears arguments on whether the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s approval of the widely used abortion drug mifepristone<\/a> should be overturned. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will review a ruling last month by a federal judge in Texas who ordered a hold on approval of mifepristone, a decision that overruled two decades of scientific approval of the drug. That ruling was stayed while the appeal is pending.<\/p>\n

The three judges who will hear the case each have a history of supporting restrictions on abortion. A ruling is not expected immedia<\/a>tely.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Lavoie reported from Richmond, Virginia. Associated Press writers James Pollard and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, Geoff Mulvihill in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Amy Beth Hanson in Helena, Montana and Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia contributed to this report. Schoenbaum and Pollard are corps members for the Associated Press\/Report for America Statehouse News<\/a> Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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