'Extremely Extreme': NC Bill Would Authorize Deadly Force Against Women Seeking Abortions

'Extremely extreme': NC bill would authorize deadly force against women seeking abortions

Concerns also extend to families who use in vitro fertilization and women with IUDs.

This North Carolina bill would make it murder to have an abortion. Here's what to know about it

A North Carolina bill filed May 13 could bring stricter anti-abortion laws into place statewide based on the results of the 2026 midterm election. North Carolina already has restrictions in place around abortion, labeled “hostile” by the Center for Reproductive Rights. Currently, it is illegal for anyone over 12 weeks, six days pregnant to get an abortion, with some providers refusing abortion even earlier than the legal cutoff. Anyone under 18 …

Life-loving NC Republicans Want To Make It Legal To Kill Anyone Providing Or Seeking An Abortion

Photo by Max Kleinen on UnsplashLast month, the House Judiciary held a hearing scrutinizing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which Republicans have sought to repeal for several decades now (when they aren’t trying to use it to prosecute Don Lemon for covering a protest inside a church). The purpose of the Act, of course, is to ensure that those seeking and providing abortions can do so without fearing for their lives — a ver…

NC Republicans Propose Letting Anyone Use Deadly Force Against Women Who Have Abortions Under New Bill

A North Carolina bill proposes amending the state constitution to classify abortion as first-degree murder and to give any person the right to use deadly force to stop it. House Bill 1232, introduced on 13 May 2026 by Republican Representatives Keith Kidwell and Ben T. Moss Jr., would amend Article I of the North Carolina Constitution to declare that 'a distinct and separate human life begins at the moment of fertilisation.' The bill grants ever…