North Carolina GOP Looks To Ram Through Anti-Abortion Law

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By Cameron Joseph
May 23, 2019 6:00 am

North Carolina state Rep. Sydney Batch (D) had planned to take off work this week as she recovered from a recent mastectomy procedure to treat her breast cancer. Instead, she spent it at the statehouse, making sure Republicans couldn’t come up with enough votes to pass new abortion-related restrictions into law.

North Carolina Republicans have been pushing to pass a “born alive” bill that would make it illegal for doctors not to help babies that somehow survived abortions. They’re just a handful of votes away from being able to override a recent veto from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D). Republicans put the bill on the legislative calendar for Monday. When it became clear they didn’t have the votes, they decided to shelve it and force Batch and the rest of the legislature to return day after day until they have the numbers.

“I was hoping to take three weeks off to recover, but unfortunately I did not have that ability,” Batch told TPM about the GOP’s latest effort. “When I realized that Monday, [Republicans were] planning to hold the vote it was worth physical sacrifice and pain to come in to vote. It was extremely important for me to vote.”

Her presence was needed. Republicans already overrode Cooper’s recent veto in the state Senate, and believe they are just three or four votes away from being able to do the same in the state House. If enough Democrats hadn’t shown up, they would have been able to ram through the legislation, since all their members attended session on Monday — a rarity in a chamber where members on both sides regularly miss votes.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/north-carolina-republicans-abortion-restrictions

Yepper, attacking a settled law from 1973 and a person right to privacy, while in there state they have election tampering....................just shows what priorities are all about in NC................fuckers....................

[spooky3]

1. Go for it, dummies, and lose more business to us Virginians. Nt

[Ohiogal]

2. Thanks a lot, Ben Sasse

for creating and perpetuating the nonsense that babies are born alive every day from botched abortions. Medical experts in the field claim this hardly ever happens. Yet the religion wingnuts keep putting it out there, making it sound like it's a common occurrence. It's so absurd, the whole thing makes me just want to scream.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Eh

What exactly are they suggesting doctors actually (already) do in those circumstances?