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On Tuesday, Gov. Roy Cooper began his week-long push to try to defeat a Republican push to add more restrictions to abortions in North Carolina.

Gov. Roy Cooper says he plans on Saturday to veto Senate Bill 20, the measure that would ban abortion in North Carolina after 12 weeks. Cooper said Tuesday at an event in Davidson that even though GOP lawmakers hold a supermajority, he just needs one Republican member to defect and vote to sustain his veto.

The North Carolina House and Senate have passed a new bill that will limit abortions after 12 weeks of fetal development. The bill contains exceptions for rape and incest up until 20 weeks of pregnancy, fetal abnormalities up until 24 weeks, and the life of the mother all the way through pregnancy. The legislation passed

Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina said Sunday that the state’s newly-passed 12-week abortion ban would endanger the access of millions of residents to the medical procedure and urged Republican legislators to resist overriding the veto he promised to sign. “They’ve [Republicans] dressed this up as a 12-week ban, but it’s really not,” the governor added. “They ran through a bill in 48 hours with no public input, with no amendments, that drastically reduces access to reproductive freedom for women.”