April 02, 2024
Two North Carolina abortion law provisions that Attorney General Josh Stein deems unconstitutional are necessary to protect women's health, Republican leaders have argued in a bid to keep hospitalization and fetus-location requirements in the statute.
March 14, 2024
A July trial date has been set in a closely watched constitutional challenge seeking to dismantle a state law that restricts access to abortions in North Carolina after 12 weeks, marking a pushback from the court's earlier projected spring timetable for the trial.
March 04, 2024
Planned Parenthood and a doctor have asked a North Carolina federal court to permanently stop the enforcement of two provisions in the state's abortion law, arguing that the pair violate due process and equal protection rights.
January 01, 2024
Constitutional challenges reign supreme in North Carolina in 2024 as a liberal state Supreme Court justice confronts a judicial watchdog's investigation into comments she made about diversity on the bench and critics look to dismantle part of the state's 12-week abortion law.
October 01, 2023
A North Carolina federal judge has temporarily blocked two parts of the state's 12-week abortion law, reasoning that Planned Parenthood and a physician are likely to succeed in their constitutional challenges to provisions requiring hospitalization for certain abortions and locating a fetus inside the uterus early in a pregnancy.
September 25, 2023
Planned Parenthood and a doctor asked a federal court Monday to block two parts of North Carolina's new law restricting abortion, arguing that provisions requiring hospitalization for certain abortions and mandating that physicians document a fetus is present are irrational and vague.
August 08, 2023
North Carolina Republican legislative leaders want a federal court to deny Planned Parenthood's request for a longer pause on two provisions in the state's 12-week abortion ban dealing with when and where the procedure can be performed.
July 25, 2023
Planned Parenthood and a North Carolina doctor have asked a federal judge to stop officials from enforcing two provisions of the state's new abortion legislation while they challenge the law's constitutionality, saying certain requirements threaten to restrict abortion access and otherwise stymie doctors' ability to provide care.
June 30, 2023
A North Carolina federal judge on Friday declined to stop the vast majority of the state's 12-week abortion law from going into effect after the state agreed to hold off enforcing some provisions until October and the governor signed a new law setting out emergency exceptions, among other changes.
June 28, 2023
A North Carolina federal judge said Wednesday she was unlikely to prevent the state's ban on most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy from going into effect later this week, but indicated she might freeze some aspects of the law in her final ruling.