June 27, 2023
North Carolina's top health care official told a federal court Tuesday the state's new abortion law is riddled with conflicting requirements that make it impossible for doctors to know what is allowed, the same day Republican leaders acknowledged issues with the law that they promised to fix.
June 26, 2023
North Carolina's Republican legislative leaders can step into a lawsuit challenging the state's recently passed 12-week abortion ban and fight an attempt at halting the law after a federal judge allowed them to intervene in the case Saturday.
June 23, 2023
The Republican leaders of North Carolina's Legislature want to put up a "vigorous defense" of the state's new law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in a lawsuit seeking to stop it from taking effect after Attorney General Josh Stein said he wouldn't defend the law.
June 22, 2023
Abortion providers seeking to enjoin a North Carolina law restricting abortion access before it takes effect on July 1 received a boost Thursday when the state's Democratic attorney general — and lead defendant in their case — refused to defend many of the provisions in the new law because they are "unconstitutional."
June 16, 2023
Planned Parenthood and a North Carolina doctor are suing over the state's new abortion restrictions that they allege were passed without input from the medical community, saying the resulting law is a nonsensical impediment to a woman's constitutional freedoms.