According to the U.S. Census, North Carolina has a higher percentage of uninsured residents compared to the national average. Currently, the state remains one of 11 states that has not expanded Medicaid.
Only 13 states in the U.S., including North Carolina, do not have a medical cannabis program. Recreational cannabis is legal in 21 states and D.C.
Stein said North Carolina’s “restriction of women’s use of the prescriptions they need to exercise their reproductive freedoms violates federal law and the Constitution.”
Every Democrat has signed onto a pair of bills, filed in the NC House and Senate, as the Codify Roe and Casey Protections Act, which would protect access to abortion care in North Carolina.
Less than 18 months from now, as many as 300,000 North Carolinians could be without their Medicaid coverage – unless legislators choose to expand coverage.
A North Carolina OB/GYN with a practice in Orange County is suing in federal court over the excess restrictions our state imposes on providing abortion pills.
“My professional opinion as a licensed clinical psychologist is that this bill will make our children less safe,” said Dr. Sarah Wilson, an assistant professor at the Duke University School of Medicine.
A new poll, released by the American Cancer Society, found that 8 out of 10 North Carolinians said that expanding Medicaid is important to them and that they support expanding the program.
States with abortion restrictions or bans have lower wages, weaker labor standards, and higher levels of incarceration, according to a new Economic Policy Institute report.
Exactly 50 years since the inception of Roe v. Wade, North Carolina Democrats are pushing forth abortion safeguards amid an ever-growing effort by Republicans to strip away reproductive rights.