EMILYs List Statement on North Carolina Anti-Choice Bill

For Immediate Release
April 15, 2019

EMILYs List Statement on North Carolina Anti-Choice Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week North Carolina’s state legislature is debating Senate Bill 359, the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” Christina Reynolds, vice president of communications at EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“When women face challenging circumstances later in pregnancy they should be able to make decisions with their doctors and their families, instead of enduring a political stunt from Republican politicians looking to score points with their extreme base. This bill is just an attempt by politicians to keep women and their doctors from making their own health care decisions. Instead of legislating based off of facts and science, these anti-choice lawmakers are lying to the public in order to pursue an extreme, ideology-driven agenda. EMILY's List is proud to support the pro-choice Democratic women working to protect all North Carolinians' rights to make their own health care decisions.”

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