The North Carolina Senate voted Tuesday to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of a bill banning most abortions after 12 weeks' gestation, sending the hotly debated measure to the House.
Bill 20, meeting the necessary three-fifths threshold without a vote to spare. The House is scheduled to take up the measure at about 8 p.m. ET.Republican flipped despite intense pressure from pro-choice advocates and the Democrat governor, who toured the state last week to drum up opposition to the measure before vetoing it at a Saturday rally in Raleigh.
The bill, passed earlier this month, lowers the gestational limit for most abortions from 20 weeks to 12 weeks. The cut-off for rape and incest would run through 20 weeks’ gestation and through 24 weeks for serious fetal abnormalities.
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