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.
North Carolina ranked 33rd in women’s health and reproductive care outcomes. In terms of maternal health, NC’s rates for maternal deaths while pregnant and infant mortality were both above the national average.
More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in the state’s Medicaid expansion program since its launch about seven months ago, officials announced recently.