Faced with the certainty that pro-abortion Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein will not defend a North Carolina’s law requiring a woman to make an in-person visit to obtain mifepristone, the first of two drugs making up the chemical abortion technique, “Lawyers for Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore filed papers in federal court asking to enter the case as new defendants, saying someone must be in place to rigorously defend state abortion laws,” Gary D. Robertson reported for the Associated Press.
Under North Carolina law, abortionists must provide mifepristone in person “at a particular type of facility after a 72-hour waiting period and, in some cases, an ultrasound examination,” according to Bloomberg Law’s Mary Anne Pazanowski.