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North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue vetoed two new abortion restrictions in the state, calling them an attempt to intrude on a relationship between a doctor and a patient.
“The bill contains provisions that are the most extreme in the nation in terms of interfering with that relationship,” Perdue said in a statement reported by the Washington Post. “Physicians must be free to advise and treat their patients based on their medical knowledge and expertise and not have their advice overridden by elected officials seeking to impose their own ideological agenda on others.”
This veto, along with a veto of a mandatory 24 hour waiting period and a budget item that would ban the state from funding Planned Parenthood, marks the Governor’s unswerving attempt to stand as a roadblock between legislators who want to impede a woman’s right to obtain a legal legal health care services and a woman’s right to control her own reproductive health.
The Governor’s veto of the Planned Parenthood was overridden by the legislature. We will have to wait to see if these subsequent vetoes will be overridden as well.
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+ add your ownI hope she can. She seems to be one of the few politicians that are pro-woman.
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Thank goodness one southern politician has common decency.
Thank you, Govorner, for standing up to those who would force other people to live their way and believe their way.
Um... governor Perdue is a Democrat.
But yeah, nice to see ANYONE in government doing something right.
A rational man, in office. Thank you, Lord!!!
“Physicians must be free to advise and treat their patients based on their medical knowledge and expertise and not have their advice overridden by elected officials seeking to impose their own ideological agenda on others.”
That says it best.
A woman supporting women how refreshing- eat you heart out Bachmann
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Just posted a petition on Care2 to thank her, everyone join me in thanking this woman for standing up and stepping forward on these issues.
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