North Carolina Dem. Gov. Vetoes Newborn Protections

North Carolina Democratic governor Roy Cooper vetoed legislation that would require doctors to provide care to newborns who survive abortion.

On Thursday, Cooper vetoed the bipartisan Born Alive Abortion Survivors Act passed by both chambers of the Republican-controlled state General Assembly. He called the legislation an "unnecessary interference between doctors and their patients" in a release announcing the veto.

"This needless legislation would criminalize doctors and other health care providers for a practice that simply does not exist," he said.

Cooper's response to the bill contrasts from the statements of Virginia Democratic governor Ralph Northam, who told a radio station that care can be withheld without the consent of the mother. Northam defended a late-term abortion bill—which was eventually blocked Republican lawmakers—by citing his career as a doctor.

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