On Air Today: Rebecca Kreitzer of UNC’s Department of Public Policy

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states can bar Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.

Written by AMANDA SEITZ and COLLEEN LONG The Biden administration is still actively searching for ways to safeguard abortion access for millions of women, even as it bumps up against a complex web of strict new state laws enacted in the months after the Supreme Court stripped the constitutional right. Looking to seize on momentum following a midterm […]

News of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling, and effectively end federal protections for safe abortions, sent several local and North Carolina leaders to social media Friday morning to share their thoughts. After a draft decision leaked in May foreshadowed the conservative-majority court’s potential stance on the case, the […]

Written by MARK SHERMAN and ZEKE MILLER A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report. A decision to overrule Roe would lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states and could have huge […]

Written by GEOFF MULVIHILL, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and CLAIRE SAVAGE One year ago Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness. Twenty-five million women of childbearing age now live in states where the law makes abortions harder to get than they were before the ruling. […]

Written by HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and GARY D. ROBERTSON In front of an exuberant crowd, North Carolina’s Democratic governor vetoed legislation Saturday that would have banned nearly all abortions in his state after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion-rights activists and voters watched on a plaza in the capital of Raleigh as Gov. Roy Cooper affixed his […]

Written by KEVIN McGILL, AMY FORLITI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Abortion bans were temporarily blocked in Louisiana and Utah, while a federal court in South Carolina said a law sharply restricting the procedure would take effect there immediately as the battle over whether women may end pregnancies shifted from the nation’s highest court to courthouses around […]

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, which effectively reversed its landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, the mayors of Hillsborough, Carrboro and Chapel Hill issued a joint statement regarding abortion in North Carolina. “We share the alarm, sorrow, and outrage that so many in our communities are […]

I like to get personal,” Chapel Hill Town Council member Camille Berry said to introduce herself to a crowd gathered at Peace and Justice Plaza. “So let’s get personal.” Over the next several minutes as she stood on East Franklin Street Saturday morning, Berry recounted her pregnancy in 1993, […]

Associate Professor Rebecca Kreitzer of UNC joins 97.9 The Hill's Brighton McConnell to share perspectives on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and scale back federal abortion protection. Plus, Kreitzer details the impacts the ruling will have in North Carolina.