Greensboro, NC – On July 5, Congresswoman Kathy Manning (NC-06) released the following statement regarding District Court Judge Eagles’ decision in Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Stein, to allow North Carolina’s 12-week abortion ban to go into effect while blocking one provision in the bill.
“Tomorrow, North Carolina’s 12-week abortion ban will go into effect despite the law’s vague language and medically unnecessary provisions, which will cause confusion for doctors and patients across the state. While I am glad to see that some provisions of this law have been clarified through the District Court’s actions – including assuring that no person will be penalized for helping someone from another state receive an abortion – this abortion ban still poses a serious threat to women’s health and wellbeing. I will keep fighting in Congress to protect women’s health and make the right to abortion federal law,” said Congresswoman Kathy Manning (NC-06).
Find Congresswoman Manning’s statement regarding the North Carolina abortion ban here.
Specifically, this decision:
Will allow the 12-week abortion ban to take effect on July 1st, 2023;
Clarifies that people, including health care providers, can help patients obtain legal abortions out of state;
States that the provision requiring sexual assault survivors to obtain an abortion in a hospital after 12 weeks of pregnancy does not go into effect until October 1, 2023.
A copy of the lawsuit can be found hereand the temporary restraining order can be found here.
Original source can be found here.
