NC Republican Leaders Try To Revive 20-Week Abortion Ban
House speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger filed an amicus brief with a federal district court last week arguing the state’s 20-week abortion ban should be reinstated.
North Carolina, Post Roe v. Wade
For abortion rights in North Carolina, the future is uncertain, and the clock is ticking.
What Will Happen in N.C. if the Supreme Court Ends the Constitutional Right to an Abortion?
Advocates predict an influx of patients from other states if Roe vs. Wade falls, but that could change if the GOP expands its legislative majorities.
A Self-Inflicted Shooting at a Raleigh Clinic Indicative of Anti-Abortion Harassment Across the Country
Statistics show a “disturbing escalation” of intimidation tactics, clinic invasions, and other activities aimed at disrupting abortion services, harassing providers, and blocking women’s access to care across the country.
Dan Forest, an Idiot, Thinks Planned Parenthood Was Founded to Destroy Black People
Gather ’round, children, and let’s chat about eugenics and racism and the Extremely White Man who thinks diversity is something you “survive.”
Welcome to Gilead
It’s not about abortion. It’s about control.
Planned Parenthood says Trump has Cut Title X Funding for North Carolina
“The latest Trump-Pence administration’s attack on health care affects the ability of 40,000 patients to receive cancer screenings, birth control, STI tests and other crucial primary and preventative health services.”
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Federal Court Rules North Carolina’s 20-Week Abortion Ban Is Unconstitutional, Obviously
But the right’s assault on Roe continues
Let’s Have a Bad-Faith Debate About Abortion!
Roe is threatened. Conservatives see an opening. You’re going to start hearing words like “infanticide” a whole lot.
The Morning Roundup: Trump “Bombs the S**t” Out of a Cave Complex in Afghanistan
It’s Friday. We made it. So why not end the week with a bang … 1) U.S. military drops a massive bomb on Afghanistan, an apparent effort to fulfill Trump’s campaign promise to “bomb the shit” out of ISIS. Yesterday, the U.S. military dropped “the mother of all bombs”—the biggest nonnuclear ordnance in the military…
HB 2: How Did We Get Here?
That’s the question I kept coming back to, in the months following the one-day special session in March that rammed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act into law: How did North Carolinaonce a bastion of, if not Berkeley-esque liberalism, at least a forward-thinking commitment to modernityend up synonymous with transphobia and bigotry? How did…
Religious extremists from North and South Carolina more dangerous than refugees, says Slate
Here in the Carolinas, we’ve been doing a lot of hand-wringing over terrorism and the remote possibility that Syrian refugees are coming to the U.S. to commit terrorist acts. And we should be concerned about terrorism, but not in relation to Syrian refugees; we have our own, home-grown crop of extremists, people who will, with…
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