NC’s 12-week abortion ban would ‘effectively ban many abortions altogether,’ says governor

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) stated Sunday that the Republican-backed 12-week abortion ban would ban “many abortions altogether” attributable to necessities the lawmakers embedded within the invoice.

“They’ve dressed this up as a 12-week ban, but it surely’s actually not,” Cooper stated on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “They rammed by way of a invoice in 48 hours with no public enter, with no amendments, that drastically reduces entry to reproductive freedom for girls.”

“It can successfully ban many abortions altogether due to the obstacles that they’ve created for girls, for clinics, and for docs,” he continued. “They’ve tried to disguise the disastrous impacts of this invoice, however we’re going to reveal them. This invoice has nothing to do with making girls safer and the whole lot to do with banning abortions.”

Cooper has vowed that he’ll veto the invoice after North Carolina lawmakers accredited the proposal final week, which is able to ban most abortions at 12 weeks. The invoice contains exceptions for rape and incest by way of 20 weeks and would permit exceptions for fetal life-limiting anomalies by way of 24 weeks.

The governor additionally stated the invoice contains provisions that may make it harder for any girls to obtain an abortion, just like the requirement for somebody to get three in-person physician visits earlier than shifting ahead with an abortion.

“And what this laws goes to do goes to forestall many ladies from getting abortions at any time throughout their being pregnant due to the obstructions that they’ve put right here,” he stated. “Lots of these clinics are working very onerous to deal with girls and now they’re going to have many new medically pointless necessities that I believe a lot of them are going to have to shut.”

Even when he vetoes the invoice, it will likely be despatched again to the legislature the place the Republicans maintain a veto-proof supermajority in each chambers of the state legislature after a Home Democrat switched events and joined the GOP final month.