What Next: North Carolina’s Rush to Restrict Abortion

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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When a Democratic pro-choice representative defected from her party, North Carolina Republicans instantly secured a veto-proof supermajority in the state legislature. Then, they quickly sent a bill that restricts abortion to their Democratic governor’s desk, and overrode his veto, ending North Carolina’s time as an abortion destination in the southeastern United States. Guest: Rebecca J. Kreitzer, associate professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and expert on abortion politics and policy. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I race for life for my mom who was diagnosed with bowel cancer.
0:04.0	I race for life for my best friend who we lost to so.
0:08.0	I race for life for my dad who's living with prostate cancer.
0:12.0	I race for life for everyone who's in cancer.
0:17.0	Who will you race for?
0:19.0	Sign up to your local event at raceforlife.org
0:23.0	And together we will be cancer.
0:27.0	Imposition with headline sponsors Standard Life.
0:36.0	On Tuesday night, a very strange thing happened.
0:40.0	Members of North Carolina's state legislature, state at work late,
0:43.0	to pass new abortion restrictions.
0:46.0	These are restrictions voters don't seem to want.
0:50.0	Even so, the bill moved from thought experiment to settled law
0:54.0	with remarkable speed.
0:56.0	And what was crazy about it is that it was literally just shy,
1:00.0	hours shy of being two weeks to the day that the bill was introduced to the public.
1:05.0	Rebecca Kreitzer was watching as legislators took to the floor of the state house
1:10.0	to argue about all this.
1:11.0	She teaches policy and political science at UNC.
1:14.0	The House will come back to order.
1:16.0	Technically, what happened Tuesday night was considered a debate.
1:20.0	Mr. Speaker, I move that the House passed Senate bill 20 care for women, children, and families, that not-
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