North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a 12-week abortion ban that the state legislature passed, setting up a confrontation between the state’s competing parties and branches of government.
“It will make abortion unavailable to many women, particularly those with lower incomes, those who live in rural areas and those who already have limited access to health care. Therefore, I veto this bill,” Cooper said to raucous applause from abortion rights supporters who came to a rally in the state capital of Raleigh.
The veto faces a steep battle: Republicans hold vetoproof supermajorities in both chambers in the North Carolina legislature and could override his veto to enact the abortion ban. However, Cooper and the state’s abortion rights supporters hope to sway a Republican lawmaker in either chamber to allow the state’s current abortion law — which allows most people to get abortions for up to 20 weeks of pregnancy — to stand.
But the measure also has several other restrictions and conditions that abortion rights lawmakers and activists oppose. They include requiring patients to have an additional in-person consultation before an abortion and increased regulations for clinics that could threaten the licenses of those that can’t afford major upgrades.The popularity of the new bill isn’t reflected in the state’s public opinion, according to the polling firm PRRI.
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