Two years ago, North Carolina Republicans passed a 12-week abortion ban. An advocate for reproductive health says that the law has made pregnancy more dangerous for women.
It’s been two years since North Carolina Republicans passed a 12-week abortion ban. Though the ban has more exceptions than those in other states, it is still vague enough, doctors say, to create legal uncertainty in life-threatening situations.
At a recent press conference on threats to reproductive care, Jillian Riley of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic said that pregnancy is too unpredictable for any legal exceptions to cover all possible outcomes, making an already dangerous law even more tenuous.
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