GREENSBORO, N.C. — The judge deciding whether North Carolina’s 12-week abortion ban can immediately go into effect said she’ll likely make a decision by Friday, one day before the new law is set to take effect.
Regardless, U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles said she would not strike down the entire law as doing so would be “over-broad relief.”
Eagles questioned lawyers for Planned Parenthood and GOP legislative leaders for more than two hours on Wednesday, focusing on a series of last-minute changes to the law that Republican lawmakers fast-tracked through the General Assembly and sent to Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk on Tuesday.
