
Office of the Governor
Press Release
One year ago today, North Carolina Republican legislators overrode Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of their abortion ban by one vote, putting reproductive care for millions of women in jeopardy. Today, Governor Cooper issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the veto override:
“Last year, every single Republican legislator, even those who promised not to further restrict a women's right to choose, voted to override my veto and now they're promising to come back after the election to make this abortion ban even worse,” said Governor Cooper. “Despite the constant push by Republicans to interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, I remain committed to doing everything I can do to protect women’s health care freedom in North Carolina.”
In the year since this harmful legislation became law, there have been damaging statewide impacts to the reproductive health care landscape in North Carolina. The state has seen a heightened shortage of OB-GYNs and primary care doctors who don’t want to practice in North Carolina due to fear of government prosecution for doing their jobs, and there has been a 6.4% drop in applications to OB-GYN residency programs in states with gestational limits on abortion, including North Carolina.
Just last month, a federal judge ruled that a number of provisions of North Carolina’s abortion ban pertaining to medication abortion are unconstitutional and preempted by federal law. The Governor’s Office continues to monitor this ongoing litigation.
The impacts of abortion bans in other states such as Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana have also placed greater strain on North Carolina’s reproductive health care systems. Meanwhile, Republican legislators have discussed the possibility of restricting reproductive health care in North Carolina even further in the coming months and years.
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