Because the best way for North Carolina to protect the health and safety of women who legally seek an abortion (for ever-narrowing bounds of legal) is … preventing the University of North Carolina's medical school from teaching about abortions.
Yes, it's all about women's health.
To Keep Women Safe, North Carolina GOP Tries to Stop Med Students From Learning How to Provide Safe Abortions
For the past few years, Republicans at the state level have passed a frenzy of abortion restrictions while arguing that they’re doing it to protect women and make abortion safer. North Carolina state Rep. Pat McElraft says as much about her latest bill, HB 465: “There’s no effort here to…
Methinks she means she wants to see a few more white taxpayers born…
+Suzanne Stewart I don't really think that's the case — I think it's an ideological decision that she/they cannot bring themselves to state openly.
+Dave Hill That's good hear. I keep reading that the undercurrent behind abortion restrictions has more to do with decreasing birth rates for whites vs Latinos…
+Suzanne Stewart I'm sure there are some fringe folk who are driven that direction, just as I am sure that "we must dominate womenfolk" is there for a few. I strongly suspect that "abortion is killing babies" is the greater moral imperative for most of them.