Abortion
Rights

A bill codifying the right to have an abortion before viability, and protecting the right to travel to another state for abortion or contraception.

A bill to redirect funding from the Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, a crisis pregnancy center group, and instead use the funds for maternal and infant health programs run by the Department of Health and Human Services. The bill would also establish new reporting requirements for crisis pregnancy centers.

A bill that protects the right to contraception.

A bill requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the services provided by crisis pregnancy centers that receive state funds, including whether they advertise themselves as medical centers and whether they have certified medical professionals on staff.

A bill that penalizes advertising that a organization provides abortions or emergency contraceptives, when it does not do so.

A bill that requires healthcare providers to tell patients about an unproven method of “abortion pill reversal” before a medication abortion.

A bill that requires healthcare providers to try to preserve the life of any infant born alive during an abortion.

A proposed constitutional amendment defining abortion as first-degree murder, a crime which carries the death penalty in North Carolina, and stating that anyone may use deadly force to defend the life of another.

A bill banning abortions after embryonic cardiac activity is detected, which happens at around six weeks, with an exception for medical emergencies and no exceptions for rape or incest.

A bill establishing that the right to life and equal protection begins at the moment of fertilization, which would effectively ban abortion at any time. The bill includes the provision that this definition of life not be read as banning IVF or birth control.