“This is the first year that they’re really just not funding even close to the level that we’ve requested,” Melanie Bush, deputy Medicaid director at DHHS, told NC Health News.
Republican state Sen. Lisa Stone Barnes voted for the state’s 12-week abortion ban (and the veto override) and then lied to her constituents, telling them the ban would “expand the rights of women.”
In 2022, 5,883 babies were born in Guilford County. Out of those babies born, 52 did not celebrate their first birthday. And more than half of those babies were African American from all socioeconomic levels.
A survey of more than 3,900 U.S. women ages 18 to 49 was conducted earlier this summer and found that 74% of women under 50 think abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
En Estados Unidos, la revocación de Roe v. Wade en 2022 ha creado una situación fragmentada con leyes sobre el aborto que varían ampliamente entre estados.
Gov. Roy Cooper has announced that North Carolina Medicaid will now cover the over-the-counter contraceptive pill Opill at no cost to Medicaid users.
State Sen. Michael Lee has voted to restrict abortion rights seven times in the last several years. That’s despite campaigning on a promise to “oppose an extreme ban on abortion.”
Republicans, from Trump to Mark Robinson, have been running away from their anti-choice records, hoping voters will overlook their controversial stance against reproductive rights.
The Biden-Harris administration approved a plan under which NC will give hospitals additional Medicaid funds if they forgive the medical debt of approximately 2 million residents. The plan has the potential to relieve as much as $4B in medical debt from the last decade.
Melinda Bales lists four priorities on her website. One important topic that Bales seems to avoid, however, is reproductive rights. Her website makes no mention of where Bales stands on the issue, and she has yet to divulge her stance publicly.