On the one-year anniversary of NC’s 12-week abortion ban, women ready for November
May 17, 2024
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of Senate Bill 20, legislation that banned abortions in North Carolina after 12 weeks.
Robinson said in 1975, when she was just 15 years old, she endured a “back-alley abortion” when she was growing up in rural South Carolina.
Roe v. Wade had been decided two years earlier, but her mother didn’t know the U.S. Supreme Court had decided women had a fundamental right to access a safe, legal abortion. Robinson said after the procedure she went home and lost so much blood from the complications that she passed out.
“You’re probably thinking next that I was taken to the hospital. No, I was not. My mother nursed me back to health in our home.”
Robinson said she shares that ‘nightmare’ decades after the fact because she wants people to realize the same horrors could await women and girls who do not have access to safe abortion care, if they choose or need that option.“They risk being in a similar situation or worse without this care,” Robinson said.
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