Republican Backtracks on Bill That Legalizes Murder to Stop Abortions (opens in new tab)

A North Carolina Republican is suddenly walking back his support for an anti-abortion bill that could cost patients and health care providers their lives.State Representative Ben Moss removed his name from House Bill 1232, which, if passed, would let North Carolinians vote to change the state constitution’s definition of “life” to beginning at the moment of conception or fertilization, a concept more broadly known as “fetal personhood.”The one-page document is unequivocal in its language, pro...