On State Budget and Forcing Gambling on NC in 2023

The NC House and NC Senate leadership delayed Medicaid Expansion in North Carolina by many months by using it to force budget changes in the state. Medicaid expansion has been a priority for North Carolina for years. We wrote about what a win/win/win Medicaid expansion would be starting in 2013. Senator Berger started talking about

NC NOW State Conference Draft Agenda

Here is the draft agenda for the state conference. Here’s the basic draft agenda.8:30 Registration9:00 Opening Plenary9:45 Ice Breaker10-11 Panel on Gender-Based CyberViolence11:10-12:10 Workshops12:10-1:30 Lunch and Keynote (Congresswoman Deborah Ross)1:30 Candidate Greetings2-3 ERA Panel3:00 Election Block and Legislative Update3:45 Game4:00 Closing Plenary The opening plenary includes presentation on safe and legal abortion which women want!

Articles and Video on Abortion and Doctors Leaving – Nov 2023

Mostly articles about abortion in NC with a must-see video of Senator Natasha Marcus talking about the outrageousness of the taxpayer giveaway to CPCs. One on the disaster that rape crisis centers are facing.

Paliga: Exponential Leap in Taxpayer Money Giveaways to CPCs

There has been an exponential leap in taxpayer money giveaways to anti-abortion clinics known as crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). N&O article “NC’s new state budget funds pregnancy centers that steer clients away from abortion,” did not explain that in 2022, the NC state budget gave *an extra 3 million dollars* to these anti-abortion clinics. The current allocation is an unbelievable $19 million over two years. Many believe these anti-abortion clinics are harmful and state funding of them is unconstitutional.

Save The Date: NC NOW State Conference – Oct 21-22, 2022

Save The Date for “Voting for Womxn’s Lives NOW!” The 2022 NC NOW state conference will be Friday evening, Oct 21, and Saturday day, October 22. Some main topics are success in motivating women to vote (like Kansas!) and abortion access including self-medicated abortion (pills and safely telling people about getting them).

NC NOW Legislative Update – 2 Dec 2021

By NC NOW Vice President for Political Action, Kathy Greggs Unfortunately, we got a state budget that failed to include Medicaid Expansion. There were a few good things, but we think they are outweighed by the bad. For example, we were able to get a very modest pay increase for teachers and state employees across

2021 State Budget BAD for Women

North Carolina finally passed its first state budget since 2017, and it is deeply and unfairly flawed. Also, the state budget was almost five months late, as it was due by June 30th and finally signed November 18, 2021. Many bad allocations and changes were included, and some serious statewide improvements were left out. With all of the money available to the legislature, they are choosing to do little for women and state employees but doing lots for rich people and corporations, as well as making some outrageous tax giveaways. 

Wrongness of CPCs in State Budget – LTEs and Op-Eds

Raleigh NOW did an action at their August meeting to write LTEs on inappropriateness of taxpayer money going to crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), which are also known as anti-abortion clinics and fake clinics. Some of these were written when the Senate’s state budget was available, allocating $4 million to CPCs and anti-abortion organizations. Later, it came out that the NC House was allocating $9 million to CPCs and anti-abortion organizations!! Both should be allocating NOTHING. Others are writing about this too. If you write something, please email it to me or post here, whether it gets published or not.

North Carolina NOW Legislative Update – 13 September 2021

Yes, the legislature is still in session.  And, no, there is still no agreement between the House and the Senate on the budget.  Can we look forward to an agreement soon?  No, because Senate leader Phil Berger has said that we should not expect a budget until the end of September or the beginning of October. But his prediction will need to be updated because there has been a complicating development.

De Pas: Shocked To Learn My Tax Dollars Going to Anti-Abortion CPCs

What happened to “separation of church and state”? I was shocked to learn that my NC tax dollars are being used to support anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers (“CPCs”) in the House version of the state budget for $9 million. The mission of these CPCs is to eradicate abortion as an option for pregnant women.