North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead

On Tuesday night, over the cries of hundreds of protesters, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina overrode the Democratic governor’s veto to enact an unpopular 12-week abortion ban, a bill that they refused to debate in a public hearing. Republicans now enjoy more power in the state capitol than they’ve had in years, after a Democratic lawmaker switched parties to give the GOP a veto-proof majority in both chambers. And it could get only worse after they gerrymander election districts later this year, enabled by a conservative-controlled state Supreme Court. That...