Not abortions, Gov. Cooper — Lockdowns
By Monica Chen Immediately after news broke that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, Gov. Roy Cooper took to Twitter to support women’s health. “Now more than ever, governors and state legislatures must stand up for women’s healthcare,” Cooper wrote on the evening of May 2. The next day, Cooper also joined 16 other governors to call on Congress to “protect access to women’s health care,” he wrote in another tweet. “Reproductive healthcare decisions are deeply personal and should be made by patients in consultation with their health care providers, not by politicians,” the letter signed by Cooper stated, to push Congress to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act. But according to N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein, Roe being overturned means North Carolina will revert to abortion being legal for the first 20 weeks of a pregnancy. Gov. Cooper, there are bigger challenges to women’s health in North Carolina right now. If Cooper wants to discuss women’s health, then the first thing that must be confronted are the negative impacts of …