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A ruling Friday from U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles denied the request from Planned Parenthood and Dr. Beverly Gray, who sought a restraining order to prevent the law that bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy from taking effect Saturday.
Despite opposing an upcoming abortion law set to begin in North Carolina this Saturday, Gov. Roy Cooper has signed into law revisions sent by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
A federal judge ruled on Friday that nearly all of North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law can take effect, while temporarily blocking one procedural rule that doctors feared could expose them to criminal penalties.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vehemently opposed the underlying abortion law, which creates a ban on most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles has issued a temporary restraining order blocking one section of North Carolina’s new abortion law. Other than the section dealing with abortion drugs and “intrauterine” pregnancy, the rest of the law can move forward.