Not to be outdone by SD, AR, NE, FL or others wanting to copy Texas, NC Repubs are salivating

[mnhtnbb]

over the idea of enacting similar anti-choice legislation. Thanks to our Dem Governor Cooper and 2018 voter turnout that reduced the number of Republicans in our State Legislature, he has been successfully able to veto all the anti-choice bills since 2018 and the Republicans have not been able to override them.

But, with the new census, redistricting is again on the table, and therein lies the answer to preserving the Constitutional right for women to control their own bodies as long as Democrats, women, and unaffiliated voters come out and support pro-choice candidates.

This was the front page, above the fold story in the print edition of the Raleigh News Observer this morning.

The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision not to block enforcement of the law while courts determine whether it is constitutional is being hailed as a major victory by anti-abortion advocates across the country, including in North Carolina, where lawmakers are taking note of other states’ successes and how the courts respond.

The Supreme Court’s refusal to act on the Texas law has given anti-abortion advocates in North Carolina hope, though, as lawmakers await its ruling on a Mississippi law prohibiting most abortions after 15 weeks. That decision is expected to come down next summer.

The fate of both of those laws will influence how North Carolina’s Republican lawmakers approach abortion legislation going forward. If Texas and Mississippi’s laws hold up and Republicans win a veto-proof majority in 2022, North Carolina’s legislature will almost certainly pass similar legislation.

“We are seeing anti-abortion activists and lawmakers more emboldened than they have been in a long time,” said Susanna Birdsong, North Carolina director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.

Read more here: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article254002253.html#storylink=cpy

[dsc]

1. We also currently have a majority on the NC Supreme Court

so there is that. But the minute the GOP gets unified control that law will be passed.

[samnsara]

2. welp more states to avoid

[viva la]

3. Are these states looking to have corporations choose not to locate there?

I wonder if they have any regard for the longterm effects on their economy if they enact laws that discourage business and employment.

[mnhtnbb]

6. Backlash to the "bathroom bill" enacted in March 2016 in NC

was partly responsible for Cooper eeking out a win over then Republican Governor McCrory (who is now running in the Republican primary for the Senate seat being vacated by Burr).

Cooper had an impressive win in 2020 for a second term as Governor, even though the orange one and Tillis were successful in taking the state.

Cooper--and his team--have been very successful in bringing business to NC. Apple has decided to locate their first east coast campus in the Triangle. Google is opening a new cloud engineering hub in Durham. Gilead Sciences is going to create a major hub here in the Triangle. The film business is coming back to the state after we lost almost all of it after the disastrous bathroom bill in 2016. CNBC did a study recently which promoted NC as the second best (Virginia was first) state for business.

So, we have a history--very recent--with what happens to the state when these right wing bigoted, misogynistic, control freak Republicans pass some kind of bill restricting rights. I expect Dems--and women--to get mobilized here to prevent what happened in Texas.

[Claire Oh Nette]

4. They want to outlaw a legal, safe medical procedure.

The North Carolina GOP also wants more dead women.

Women are free to choose to bring a pregnancy to term. No one woman or man, or collection of old, white, pervy women hating men should choose what's right for anyone else.

Don't "believe" in a medical procedure that actually exisits? Then don't get that procedure. It's the same as the Marriage equality nonsense. Don't "believe" in gay marriage? Then say no if someone asks you to.

Republicans believe life begins at conception and ends at delivery.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/as-republicans-we-believe-the-right-to-life-extends-from-conception-until-birth

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Jesse Helms would be so proud.

[Vinca]

7. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think this is going to backfire big time for the GQP.

Democrats running for office should take this as the gift it is and run with it. It would be so nice to have significant majorities in states and Congress to be able to end this BS once and for all.

[crickets]

11. +1

[littlemissmartypants]

8. If you haven't already, could you please cross post this to the NC group?

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1069

Thank you. ❤

[mnhtnbb]

9. Done.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. ❤ nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. Thank God/Goddess for our wonderful Governor. I shudder to think that there might be a...

Senator Lara Trump in our future.