Human Rights

NC General Assembly stoops to new low in latest attack on women’s right to an abortion

By Eleanore Wood / May 28, 2019 / Comments Off on NC General Assembly stoops to new low in latest attack on women’s right to an abortion

The NC House of Representatives do not have the votes to override Gov. Cooper’s veto of SB 359, the so-called “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” when all House members are present. So they have placed the bill on the voting calendar and then postponed it ten times in hopes of finding a moment when enough pro-choice champions…

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Protests against immigration bills that force sheriffs to act like ICE agents

By Eleanore Wood / May 8, 2019 / Comments Off on Protests against immigration bills that force sheriffs to act like ICE agents

A group of immigrants and activists came together Saturday morning to rally outside of the North Carolina Sheriff’s Association against House Bill 370 and House Bill 135. They are urging Governor Roy Cooper to take a stand against two bills, which according to Members of the immigrant community makes them feel as if they are “captive in a community…

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Handful of Democrats stand with GOP on bad-faith “born alive” bill

By Eleanore Wood / April 29, 2019 / Comments Off on Handful of Democrats stand with GOP on bad-faith “born alive” bill

Even though Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed the latest Republican abortion bill, a handful of North Carolina Democrats are standing with the NCGOP in support of this bad-faith attack on health care. Reps. Garland Pierce and Charles Graham have said they would vote to overturn Cooper’s veto. Sen. Ben Clark, who originally supported the legislation, said he…

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Cooper vetoes bad-faith “Born Alive” bill

By Eleanore Wood / April 23, 2019 / Comments Off on Cooper vetoes bad-faith “Born Alive” bill

Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed the latest Republican abortion bill, another attack on health care using sensationalist claims not based in science. Although the GOP no longer has super-majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly, they may still be able to scrape up the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn the veto. No matter what happens, one…

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Latest abortion bill another attempt to control relationship between patients, doctors

By Eleanore Wood / April 16, 2019 / Comments Off on Latest abortion bill another attempt to control relationship between patients, doctors

Since the Republican supermajority was elected in 2010, North Carolina has passed some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation. Now Republicans are trying to threaten doctors with criminal action and shame patients over practice not based in the reality of abortion care. The latest Republican abortion bill is another attack on health care using sensationalist claims…

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Trump’s U.S. Attorney ignored GOP vote theft evidence to focus on witch-hunt for non-citizen voters

By Logan Smith / February 8, 2019 / Comments Off on Trump’s U.S. Attorney ignored GOP vote theft evidence to focus on witch-hunt for non-citizen voters

U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon turned a blind eye to evidence of a Republican vote theft scheme in Bladen, other counties RALEIGH — U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon’s office has continued to focus its attention on scouring the countryside for the possibility of non-citizens who may have voted in past elections, even as Higdon ignores clear evidence of GOP…

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Vice: When Thousands of Christian ‘Prayer Marchers’ Descend on One Abortion Clinic

By Eleanore Wood / December 15, 2018 / Comments Off on Vice: When Thousands of Christian ‘Prayer Marchers’ Descend on One Abortion Clinic

On Saturday, December 2, thousands of anti-abortion protesters marched down Latrobe Drive and blocked access to North Carolina’s busiest abortion clinic, A Preferred Women’s Health Center. The clinic saw almost 50 fewer patients than they typically see on a Saturday because people did not feel comfortable driving to the clinic with so many protesters outside.…

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The Progressive Pulse: Black sheriffs make history in sweep of seven largest NC counties

By Eleanore Wood / November 8, 2018 / Comments Off on The Progressive Pulse: Black sheriffs make history in sweep of seven largest NC counties

North Carolina has made history by electing 8 black sheriffs one of them female. 7 of those sheriffs are in the largest counties in the state.  Mecklenburg, Durham, Guilford, Forsyth, Cumberland, Buncombe, Wake, and Pitt counties. Election analysts and the winners said black candidates were propelled to office largely because they objected to hardline immigration…

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The Washington Post: Retired Justice Stevens calls Kavanaugh’s hearing performance disqualifying

By Eleanore Wood / October 5, 2018 / Comments Off on The Washington Post: Retired Justice Stevens calls Kavanaugh’s hearing performance disqualifying

Retired Justice John Paul Stevens has said he doesn’t believe that Brett Kavanaugh is the right person for the job of Supreme Court justice. And it’s not just Justice Stevens. Add to that over 2,400 law professors who think Kavanaugh is not a good fit. Yet the Republican-dominated Senate is still trying to ram his…

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The Washington Post: Retired Justice Stevens calls Kavanaugh’s hearing performance disqualifying

By Eleanore Wood / October 5, 2018 / Comments Off on The Washington Post: Retired Justice Stevens calls Kavanaugh’s hearing performance disqualifying

Retired Justice John Paul Stevens has said he doesn’t believe that Brett Kavanaugh is the right person for the job of Supreme Court justice. And it’s not just Justice Stevens. Add to that over 2,400 law professors who think Kavanaugh is not a good fit. Yet the Republican-dominated Senate is still trying to ram his…

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