House sends bill to Cooper revising abortion law, clarifying when medication abortion is allowed

The proposal allows women to take abortion-inducing drugs in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and permits doctors to provide advice for getting an out-of-state abortion.

Less than 24 hours before a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new 12-week abortion law is scheduled to be heard, House lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill to clarify how doctors may advise pregnant women and when women can take abortion-inducing drugs.

By a 115-4 vote, the House sent Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper House Bill 190, which makes …