Curt Flewelling, FISM News
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U.S. District Judge William Osteen has overturned a 2019 injunction he placed on a North Carolina law prohibiting abortion after 20 weeks. The law, first passed in 1973, went into effect immediately upon the judge’s ruling.
Contrary to numerous claims from pro-abortion activists and politicians, the law allows for exceptions after 20 weeks of pregnancy when medical complications threaten the mother’s life.
“Neither this court, nor the public, nor counsel, nor providers have the right to ignore the rule of law as determined by the Supreme Court,” Judge Williams explained in the ruling.
Democrat Governor Roy Cooper responded to the reinstatement of the 20-week abortion ban.
“Although I disagree with this ruling, the vast majority of patients will be able to access reproductive healthcare in North Carolina, and I remain committed to protecting it,” Cooper said in his statement.
The effectiveness of any vetoes that the governor may issue after this November could be voided, as the GOP looks to add five additional seats in the already Republican-dominated state legislature. A pick-up of that size will produce a supermajority that could overturn any veto by the governor.
The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade has animated the left, as they have committed to redouble their efforts to vanquish their political foes on the right. Democrats and their allies in legacy media have worked to reframe the pro-life/pro-choice argument to define abortion as “reproductive rights” and “women’s health.”
This shift in strategy attempts to make the debate about healthcare for the “birthing parent” (since, apparently, men can get pregnant, according to the mainstream left’s ideology of the times), rather than morality and the life of the child.
Conservatives and pro-life organizations, on the other hand, are celebrating wins for life 50 years in the making.
VICTORY! Judge Reinstates North Carolina Ban on Killing Viable Babies in Late-Term Abortions https://t.co/M71Ids4pSo
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Rep. Deborah Ross (D-N.C.) responded to the ruling by saying, “A sad day for women in North Carolina. Our legislature and courts have no business dictating women’s health. We won’t be silent as they continue restricting our rights.”
Her assertion that her state legislature has no business dictating women’s health seems to be at direct odds with the landmark SCOTUS ruling that states:
The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey are overruled; the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.