'A 12-week abortion ban is not about life,' RevDrBarber said of North Carolina's SB20. 'If these extremists who claim to be Republicans were serious about life, they would pass living wages, healthcare, family leave, and fully funded public education.'
that"we operate six clinics across the state. None of our health centers, including Asheville, meet the requirements that would be mandated by an ambulatory surgical center license."
The looming law and potential clinic closures could impact people seeking abortion care across the Southeast. Riveria said that"right now, the majority of patients that we're seeing, specifically at the Asheville Health Center, are from out of state.
Debates on the bill were fairly extensive. The Senate's floor debate was the longest of the last decade,Senate leader Phil Berger's [R-26] office. But critics have slammed the speed with which the bill cleared the Legislature through a special process that meant it didn't need to go through multiple committees and couldn't be amended.
The Reproductive Freedom Alliance, a nonpartisan group of 22 governors including Cooper, said in a statement Thursday that"the state Legislature rushed this legislation through with little transparency or public input and it has become clear why: The more North Carolinians learn about this law, the more they oppose it."
"We support Gov. Cooper's pledge to veto this dangerous measure and we remain committed to strengthening reproductive freedom across the country," the alliance continued, also highlighting that ten of millions of people have already lost access to abortion care in their home states since
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