As predicted, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) today has vetoed NC’s proposed Born Alive bill:
Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday vetoed legislation that would have required doctors to provide the same care to an infant that survives an abortion as they give any other newborn.
“Laws already protect newborn babies, and this bill is an unnecessary interference between doctors and their patients,” Cooper said in his veto statement. “This needless legislation would criminalize doctors and other health care providers for a practice that simply does not exist.”
Gov. Cooper has vetoed Senate Bill 359: pic.twitter.com/1o1mOozurY
— Governor Roy Cooper (@NC_Governor) April 18, 2019
Brent Woodcox, staff attorney for NC Senate Republicans, explained why this rationale made no sense:
.@RoyCooperNC’s veto message on the Born Alive bill is nonsensical. “This doesn’t happen. If it did, passing laws against it would interfere with doctors and patients. And we already have laws that do that anyway.” 🤔🤷♂️🤥 #NCGA #NCPOL @xan_desanctis pic.twitter.com/OfQkf5uvb6
— Brent Woodcox (@BrentWoodcox) April 18, 2019
He also took off after Politifact’s North Carolina division over a very misleading and thinly-sourced fact check on a key claim made about the bill:
There is no law on NC's books that would punish a doctor who withholds care from a baby born alive after an abortion which is why this "fact check" doesn't identify one. @PolitiFactNC has become a pathetic lie factory that pumps out @NCDemParty talking points. #NCGA #NCPOL https://t.co/kFb3Cu2iXW
— Brent Woodcox (@BrentWoodcox) April 18, 2019
Deaths of neglect after an attempted abortion are a loophole in our existing criminal laws. That was the reason the bill was put forward. If you can point to a law that covers this scenario, I’m interested to see it.
— Brent Woodcox (@BrentWoodcox) April 18, 2019
I countered some of the claims from a related fact check, too. Specifically this one:
Claims about New York’s law have been exaggerated.
The NC House recently passed a resolution in response to a new New York law, known as the “Reproductive Health Act.”
Republicans who wrote the NC resolution described the NY law as “an extreme abortion-on-demand policy that establishes an unfettered right to abortion … the RHA authorized abortion up until the moment of birth.”
A viral Facebook image made a similar claim: that, under the new NY law, it’s legal to “murder” a baby a minute before it would be born. PolitiFact rated it False.
— Sister Toldjah 😁 (@sistertoldjah) April 18, 2019
See this also, which I wrote in February:
**NY’s Updated Abortion Law Means Man Won’t Get Charged In Murder Of Unborn Child**
As I noted last week, Cooper is beholden to the abortion lobby and the extreme left in this state, so it wasn’t shocking that he vetoed the bill. But there is the question of the timing of Cooper’s veto. The bill passed two days ago, and he performed his veto just this morning. Alexandra DeSanctis speculates as to why:
Pro-life news: North Carolina governor Roy Cooper this morning vetoed a bipartisan born-alive bill that would’ve required doctors to provide medical care to infants born alive after attempted abortion procedures. Note the timing of his veto, as the Mueller report dropped.
— Alexandra DeSanctis (@xan_desanctis) April 18, 2019
An attempt at burying the story in the midst of a super-heavy national news cycle?
What remains to be seen at this point is whether or not Republicans have the votes to override Cooper’s veto. They no longer have a veto-proof majority so they’d have to bring a few Democrats on board to help them with an override. That’s a tall order.
Stay tuned.
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