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U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles issued an order Saturday halting enforcement of a provision to require surgical abortions that occur after 12 weeks — like those for cases of rape and incest — be performed only in hospitals.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a small portion of the state's new abortion restrictions from taking effect this weekend. But the remaining provisions will take effect on Saturday as scheduled.

While the clean-up bill was “important to clarify the rules and provide some certainty,” Cooper said Thursday in a written statement, “we will continue fighting on all fronts the Republican assault on women’s reproductive freedom.”

Attorney General Josh Stein says he won’t defend provisions in North Carolina’s new abortion law that he thinks are unconstitutional.

Abortion providers in North Carolina have filed a federal lawsuit that challenges several provisions of a state law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Hundreds of abortion-rights activists and voters watched Gov. Roy Cooper affix his veto stamp to the bill that would have banned all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The veto launches a major test for leaders of the GOP-controlled General Assembly to attempt to override Cooper’s veto after they recently gained veto-proof majorities in both chambers.

The 46-page abortion bill released late Tuesday night is a lot to digest. Here’s an explanation of what’s in the controversial measure.

After months of closed-door discussions among Republican lawmakers, N.C. House and Senate leaders announced Tuesday night that they’ve agreed to ban abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

A federal judge has ruled that abortions are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy in North Carolina.

The North Carolina attorney general’s office, representing defendants in a 2019 case that blocked a state law banning most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, has joined plaintiffs in asking a federal court not to restore the ban after the judge suggested his injunction “may now be contrary to law.”