Planned Parenthood announced Friday that it will invest $5 million in North Carolina ahead of this November’s midterm elections.
Family Planning Vote and Family Planning Action PAC North Carolina said the funds will be used to create advertising, mail and phone banks in 14 legislative swing districts and to support election campaigns.
The investment is part of abortion providers’ $50 million nationwide campaign to protect reproductive rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade over the summer.
North Carolina has historically been a competitive battlefield, and even more so because voters may think the results of the midterm elections could determine the legality of abortion in the state.
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Over the summer, a federal judge ruled that abortion is legal in North Carolina up to 20 weeks’ gestation. But Republicans in the state are trying to outlaw it.
Their efforts have so far been rejected by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, but Republicans are just five seats behind the overwhelming majority in Congress, three seats in the House and two in the Senate. Potential veto.
Emily Thompson, deputy director of the Planned Parenthood Action PAC North Carolina, said her team’s efforts were to prevent Republicans from winning an overwhelming majority in the General Assembly.
“Failure to elect a reproductive rights advocate in five key state Senate elections will result in the overwhelming majority of anti-abortion voters in North Carolina voting to ban abortion,” Thompson said. rice field. “And a final defense against restrictive state laws designed to deprive us of the right to make our own medical decisions if we don’t defend his two key seats on the North Carolina Supreme Court. You will lose your line.”
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Republicans across the state said even this week that even if they win a veto majority, they would not outright ban abortion. I said there is a difference.
“It doesn’t exist, so they couldn’t point it out to anyone,” Berger said Wednesday.
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Planned Parenthood is also pouring resources into North Carolina’s high-profile U.S. Senate election between Democrat Cheri Beasley and Republican U.S. Congressman Ted Budd, as well as two state Supreme Court elections.
North Carolina is one of the few states in the South to legalize abortion.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.