NC: Crowd cheers Gov. Roy Cooper as he vetoes abortion ban
A crowd cheered Gov. Roy Cooper as he vetoed a Republican-authored abortion ban in an unusual rally that capped off a week of attempts to pressure a small group of GOP legislators into letting the veto stand.
Some bills are signed in public ceremonies, but bill vetoes don’t usually draw enthusiastic audiences.
For Senate Bill 20, though, reproductive rights supporters from around the state gathered in an outdoor corridor between the state Capitol and the state Legislative Building to cheer and applaud Cooper as he read his veto message and applied the veto stamp.
“When women’s health is on the line, I will never back down,” Cooper said. “And I know you won’t either.”
Attendees at the Saturday rally were encouraged to flood Republican legislators with calls and emails asking them to sustain the veto.
Republicans have a veto-proof majority in the House and Senate, and they passed the 12-week abortion ban along party lines. Cooper concentrated his pressure campaign on Reps. John Bradford and Tricia Cotham of Mecklenburg County, and New Hanover legislators Ted Davis in the House and Michael Lee in the Senate.
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