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As the new legislative session begins, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expect healthy debate about Medicaid expansion, mental health care, abortion and other issues.
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While mostly ceremonial there was already a partisan stir-up by the Republican majority in the House.
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The North Carolina General Assembly starts a new long session on Jan. 11.
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Cooper told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that he’ll need to rely partly on self-control by GOP leaders to prevent enactment of legislation he doesn't like. Cooper said he would keep fighting against additional abortion restrictions and for expanding Medicaid.
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North Carolina has six statewide judicial races on the ballot this year, including two seats on the state Supreme Court.
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As states across the country restrict abortion, President Biden and some other Democrats want to ease federal restrictions on the procedure.
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With more restrictive laws on abortion going into effect across the country, uncertainty about the future of reproductive health care is growing. But there is one group of people who are prepared to do what they’ve always done to provide access for those who don’t have it: abortion doulas.
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Before recording this episode, Anita would have turned to Google for her burning questions about abortion. But now, she knows better. She meets two abortion doulas who share the practical and philosophical components of their job. They reflect on what has changed for them since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and what's stayed the same for their alternative and community-based networks of care.
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A federal judge has ruled that abortions are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy in North Carolina.
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North Carolina’s Republican General Assembly leaders have asked a federal judge to reinstate a 20-week abortion ban previously thrown out by courts, despite the Democratic attorney general’s refusal to seek enforcement of the ban after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide abortion protections.