Abortion in North Carolina

If the woman's life is determined by a qualified physician to be at risk, abortion is legal at any stage of pregnancy.

National research carried out in 1967 included North Carolina data to derive estimates related to abortion procedures.

This contrasted to neighboring South Carolina, where only 5.9% of abortions performed in the state involved out-of-state residents.

Representative Tricia Cotham helped the measure to pass, abruptly switching positions after campaigning on abortion rights in 2022.

[19] The US Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade ruling meant the state could no longer regulate abortion in the first trimester.

[14] However, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No.

[20][21] U.S. District Judge William Osteen formally struck down North Carolina's 'life of the mother only' 20-week abortion ban in March 2019.

The ruling means most of the changes to North Carolina's abortion laws since the end of Roe v. Wade remain in place.

[60] The 2023 American Values Atlas reported that, in their most recent survey, 66% of people from North Carolina said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

[67] Women from the state participated in marches supporting abortion rights as part of a #StoptheBans movement in May 2019.

[68] In November 2020, Reiley Baker, a UNC Chapel Hill student from Charlotte, started a petition to stop a prayer walk organized by Love Life.

"They'll travel back to their communities across North Carolina and possibly spread COVID-19," Baker told The Charlotte Observer.

[75][76] An incident of anti-abortion violence occurred at an abortion clinic in Greensboro, North Carolina, on March 17, 1991.