North Carolina lawmakers voted Tuesday to override the governor’s veto of a 12-week ban on abortions, the latest development in Republicans’ nationwide battle against the procedure.
The Republican-controlled General Assembly passed the drastic measure after the state’s Senate did so earlier in the day.
It represents a major victory for GOP leaders who needed every Republican member on board to enact the law over the opposition of Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat.
Cooper vetoed the measure over the weekend after traveling around the state and attempting to convince Republican lawmakers to break from the party line.
The four Republicans whom Cooper targeted, including one who recently switched from the Democratic Party, all ultimately voted to override.
GOP pols pitched the provision as a middle-ground alteration to the state law, which currently bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and offers no exceptions for rape or incest.
The override comes as states across the nation continue to feel the effects of a massive shift in the abortion landscape, which has been in flux since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade case last year.
Lawmakers in South Carolina and Nebraska are considering new abortion bans. The South Carolina House’s potential ban would outlaw abortions after six weeks of pregnancy — often before women know that they are pregnant.
If both North and South Carolina follow through on the proposed bans, “it would be just devastating for abortion access in the South,” said Jamie Lockhart, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia.
Tami Fitzgerald, the executive director of the North Carolina Values Coalition, offered a different perspective.
“Today marks the beginning of North Carolina’s first real step towards becoming a pro-life state,” she said after Tuesday’s vote.
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Every unborn child is a potential universe unto itself, independent realities capable of becoming so much more than the single cells from which we spring with the potential to become as large as the universe in which we find ourselves. Truly, we’ve got the whole world in our hands. The Darth Vader’s of our Democrat party created Death Stars would lead us into their black holes of dark meaningless planets without suns, darkness without light, protonic atomic nucleus’s without the power of ever circulating well-charged electrons, whole nations without life giving petroleum power which they seek to abort as easily as they close down our life giving gas stations, people too ignorant to understand that if you are not pro-life, that makes you pro death, and what you give will become what nature makes sure you yourself will get, reflected with a life of the living dead that secular politicos like Joe has shown begins with the death of the soul, soon followed by the death of the brain, with a non-functioning body not far behind. He has turned our nation into the personification of himself in law ignoring legal lethargy and outright lawless leprosy. The sooner they go, the quicker our nation and its people will be reborn. Overide them like a herd of unleashed stallions stampeding and stomping on a clan of coyotes.
Simply stated, abortion at anytime past conception is murder and beyond “bad”. This is an abomination and wrong in every sense and circumstance.
All i say is GOOD!