Human Rights Archives — Progress NC Action

As they grab for power before losing supermajority, NC Republicans show they have wrong priorities

By Patrick Zarcone / November 22, 2024 / Comments Off

North Carolina Republicans are having trouble accepting that voters took away their supermajority and also rejected their MAGA Council of State candidates, so now they are using a bill for desperately needed Helene relief funding to change laws to entrench their power before they lose it.

Audio: Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson tells supporters he wants to get abortion restrictions down to ‘zero’ weeks

By Patrick Zarcone / September 13, 2024 / Comments Off

In the recording, a woman asks Robinson why he changed his position on abortion to support the state’s 12-week ban. Robinson replied, “Do I want to continue to lower it? You better know it. I would love to get down to six weeks. And I’d like to get down to zero.”

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Tries to Reinvent His Abortion Position in Disingenuous New Ad

By Patrick Zarcone / August 9, 2024 / Comments Off

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson released an ad last week featuring him and his wife, Yolanda Hill Robinson, talking about their decision to get an abortion in 1989 and how difficult a decision it was. The Robinsons, just like everyone else in this nation, should have access to safe, legal abortion care. Despite Robinson’s claim in…

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson changes campaign website to remove references to abortion, other top issues

By Patrick Zarcone / July 19, 2024 / Comments Off

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has seemingly relaunched his campaign website and, in the process, removed all references to some of his top issues like abortion, guns, voter ID and immigration.

F**k the haters: June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month!

By Patrick Zarcone / May 31, 2024 / Comments Off

Pride is about loving who you love, embracing who you are and being who you were meant to be. Sometimes, the greatest act of resistance is to be who you are and to continue to love in a world that’s increasingly pushing us toward hate.

Mifepristone case: Supreme Court holds first abortion-related hearing since overturning Roe

By Patrick Zarcone / April 1, 2024 / Comments Off

The effort to ban mifepristone is a direct attack on a common and essential type of health care. Neither judges nor politicians should have any say or control over the private health care decisions of others.

Sympathy for ‘fetal personhood’ – the argument used in Alabama court’s shocking IVF decision – already exists in NC’s court system

By Patrick Zarcone / March 1, 2024 / Comments Off

The chances of a ruling like Alabama’s happening in North Carolina are not out of the realm of possibility, considering the conservative state Supreme Court’s increasingly political (and personal) actions and rulings.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, ex-Trump administration officials and allies in lockstep on total abortion bans

By Patrick Zarcone / February 23, 2024 / Comments Off

Allies of Donald Trump and ex-administration officials are working on plans to severely restrict abortion rights on the national level. At the same time, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his campaign have also expressed an interest in a complete ban on abortion in NC.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson believes trans people should be arrested for using public bathrooms, insists they ‘find a corner outside’ instead

By Patrick Zarcone / February 16, 2024 / Comments Off

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s latest comments on transgender people indicates that he would be in favor of bringing back HB 2, a bill that led to billions in economic losses for NC, as well as international embarrassment.

NC Gov. Roy Cooper, AG Josh Stein sign on to Supreme Court briefs aimed at protecting reproductive freedoms

By Patrick Zarcone / February 9, 2024 / Comments Off

Gov. Roy Cooper and AG Josh Stein have both signed their names to SCOTUS briefs asking the court to protect access to the medication abortion drug mifepristone.