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U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles has issued an order confirming that Republican legislative leaders can continue defending North Carolina's new abortion law in federal court.
A federal judge has blocked one section of North Carolina's new abortion law from taking effect Saturday. The section requires doctors using abortion-inducing drugs to document an "intrauterine pregnancy."
H.B. 190, Dept. of Health and Human Services Revisions, a bill that features revisions to abortion law changes made in S.B.20, Care for Women, Children, and Families Act, was signed into law by Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday.
Critics of North Carolina's new abortion law are drawing a federal judge's attention to new legislation that would tweak the law. They say the new legislation should have no impact on their request for a temporary restraining order.
On Thursday, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, said he would not defend his state over a new abortion law legislators passed in May.