North Carolina governor signs executive order to protect abortion rights in the state

[In It to Win It]

ABC News

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order to strengthen access to reproductive health care in the state on Wednesday.

The order takes several steps to defend the existing services in North Carolina, including to state that patients who receive abortions or providers who perform abortions will not be penalized or criminalized for providing, receiving or inquiring about reproductive health care services.

The executive action comes almost two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed the right to abortion for almost 50 years.

Cooper's order establishes that all cabinet agencies, or those who are part of the governor’s office, “should coordinate with each other and pursue opportunities to protect people or entities who are providing, assisting, seeking or obtaining lawful reproductive health care services in North Carolina.”

It further states that cabinet agencies may not require any pregnant cabinet agency employee to travel to a state that has restrictions on access to reproductive health care that do not include exceptions favoring the health of the pregnant employee.

The order says it does not change North Carolina law, but rather ensures that North Carolina residents will continue to have a protected right to access and perform abortions, alongside other reproductive care.

As other states uphold bans on abortion, North Carolina increasingly becomes a "critical access point" for those seeking reproductive health services, according to the order.

[COL Mustard]

1. Good. It's nobody's business but the woman's and her doctor's

I don't understand the endless necessity by these Nosy Nelly Republicans to pry into every aspect of people's private lives. You're antiabortion? Great! Don't have one! Leave other people the hell alone!

[BidenRocks]

2. He said....

"North Carolina residents" .

So much for others

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. You don't know that,

and I'll bet you a years' worth of my pension that the EO protects women coming in from hostile states to have an abortion.

[BidenRocks]

5. I hope you are right.

[Traildogbob]

3. Thank you Roy

We need some good from North Carolina. Considering Meadows and Cawthorn from district 11. And the case about Legislatures having sole power of election outcomes the Supremacist Court (featuring Uncle Thomas) May use to destroy democracy is coming from North Carolina. Roy has been working his ass off battling the GQP legislatures we have here.
This is good news for a change.

[Bosshog1]

6. Thank You Governor Cooper

In the not too distant future expectant mothers and their babies will die in botched medical procedures in sleazy motels because Catholics value life. Maybe Catholic Churches will put up little white crosses for each life they will destroy while church members wallow in their self righteousness. I’d appreciate an opinion from a lawyer. If a woman forced to have a baby and health care professionals object to the procedure for her healths sake but are bound by law to perform the procedure and she dies on the operating table, was she murdered by 6 members of the Supreme Court? My apologies to English teachers everywhere for that last sentence. (It’s structure, not content.)

[littlemissmartypants]

8. Not all Catholics are against a woman's right to choose. I hope you will check the history of the

church before casting asparagus, (sic).


❤ pants

[Bosshog1]

9. Okay

I grew up Catholic. I was groomed. I consider the Catholic Church and the Republican Party domestic enemies of the Constitution. The Catholic Church should forfeit its tax exempt status and it would if it had any integrity. You and I are on the same side of the argument and we are both Catholic in some form or other. I occasionally go to Church for the same reason I go the the County Fair. I spent more then 30 years in the Navy and the Catholic Church and the Republican Party make me think I wasted my time supporting and defending the Constitution. Will the majority on the Supreme Court be guilty of murder when 17 Year old homeless rape victims die in a motel by an interstate? I was a Catholic. I don’t know if I still am, but it’s none of the Catholic Churches business whether a desperate woman chooses. I’m sure you agree.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. I love Governor Cooper. He was a wonderful Attorney General, Majority Leader, Senator

and House Representative. He's a devoted public servant with only the best intentions for the people of his great state. We are extremely fortunate to have him serve, especially during such challenging times.

Thanks so much, Governor Cooper!

Thanks for sharing this, In It to Win It.❤

[wendyb-NC]

10. Thank you, Governor Cooper