RALEIGH, UNITED STATES - JUNE 24: Abortion rights demonstrators gather to protest against the Supreme Court's decision in the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health case on June 24, 2022 in Raleigh, United States.
The Court's decision in the Dobbs v Jackson RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Senate voted Tuesday to override the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in the first of two steps necessary to enact the policy over Gov.
Roy Cooper’ s opposition.The vote came as abortion rights in the U.S. faced another tectonic shift with lawmakers debating laws to sharply limit abortion in North and South Carolina, two of the few remaining Southern states with relatively easy access.Nebraska joined North Carolina and South Carolina in debating abortion restrictions Tuesday that are possible because the U.S.
Supreme Court last year struck down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which established a nationwide right to abortion.RELATED: North Carolina governor vetoes abortion ban bill, prepares for possible overrideUnder another bill up for a vote Tuesday, in the South Carolina House, abortion access would be almost entirely banned after about six weeks of pregnancy.