Gov. Roy Cooper: SCOTUS "tragically stripped away" women's reproductive rights

RALEIGH, Wake County — North Carolina’s Governor has spoken out after the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that allows individual states to ban abortion, essentially overturning Roe vs Wade.

“For 50 years, women have relied on their constitutional right to make their own medical decisions,” Cooper said in a statement. “But today that right has been tragically stripped away.”

He said that means it’s up to states to determine whether women get reproductive health care, and in North Carolina, they still can.

“I will continue to trust women to make their own medical decisions as we fight to keep politicians out of the doctor’s exam room,” he added.

Roe v. Wade was a landmark SCOTUS reached in 1973; that court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protects a pregnant woman's right to have an abortion.