With both abortions in North Carolina and the number of out-of-state clinic patients soaring after Roe v. Wade was struck down, judges should permit more trained health professionals to prescribe pills for medication-induced abortions, plaintiffs in a lawsuit wrote on Monday.

Abortion providers, medical workers and an abortion-rights group awaiting trial next year in their 2020 lawsuit challenging many state abortion rules asked a three-judge panel to act now and block a law limiting who can provide such medication from just certain licensed physicians.

Allowing physician assistants, nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives who work at certified abortion clinics to prescribe these pills would immediately expand access to abortion in North Carolina, the plaintiffs said. These "advanced practice clinicians" already can prescribe the same two medicines used in medication-induced abortions for managing a patient’s miscarriage, according to a memo describing the legal grounds for a preliminary injunction.

The court should remove "an unnecessary barrier to care so that more North Carolinians can access a full range of reproductive health services, including time-sensitive abortion care, in their own state," Anne Logan Bass, a nurse practitioner at Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, and a plaintiff, said in a news release.

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North Carolina abortion clinic operators have said they've seen a marked increase in the number of women coming from other states that now have more severe abortion limitations following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June.

The memo said Planned Parenthood South Atlantic — a leading abortion provider in the state and a plaintiff — performed 1,298 abortions in September, which is a 68% increase compared to September 2021. And in September 66% of abortion patients at its health center in Asheville — a short drive from parts of Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee — were from out-of-state, compared to 31% in September 2021. Overall, 27% of the abortion patients at Planned Parenthood health centers last month came from other states, compared to 11% the same month the year before.

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This "has exacerbated the long wait times experienced by North Carolinians seeking abortion — forcing them to remain pregnant against their will for longer periods, potentially pushing them past the gestational age limit for a medication abortion, and more," the plaintiffs' attorneys wrote.

North Carolina restricts abortion after 20 weeks, with some exceptions for a medical emergency. Tennessee currently bans almost all abortions. South Carolina and Georgia ban abortions once an ultrasound detects fetal cardiac activity — typically six weeks after fertilization and before many patients know they’re pregnant. South Carolina's law was enforced briefly in the summer before the state's Supreme Court suspended its enforcement due to litigation.

Wait times between scheduling medication-abortion appointments at Planned Parenthood's health centers in Winston-Salem and Asheville and the actual appointment dates also have increased dramatically since July, the memo said. Physician staffing challenges at the six Planned Parenthood health centers in the state that perform abortions mean abortion appointments aren't always available, the court filing said.

Republican legislative leaders along with other government officials defending these and other abortion laws in the lawsuit will be able to respond to Monday's motion. A panel of three Superior Court judges is hearing the case because the lawsuit alleges the challenged laws violate the state constitution. The trial is scheduled for September 2023.

The lawsuit also challenges a 72-hour waiting period for a woman to receive an abortion; a ban on virtual appointments to receive a medication-induced abortion; requirements approved in 2011 that certain information be presented to a pregnant woman; and regulations placed upon clinics the plaintiffs say prevent abortion access.

Katie Hobbs looks petrified when asked about her refusal to debate Kari Lake

Even CNN called Democrat Katie Hobbs out over the weekend on State of the Union with Dana Bash for refusing to debate Kari Lake.

Hobbs has such little respect for the voters of Arizona that she told Bash, “They’re not going to look at their ballot and say, ‘damn it, Katie Hobbs didn’t debate her opponent.'”

Hobbs was also pressed on her abortion stance, and she again refused to give a clear answer. When asked the simple yes or no question, “if you become Governor, you will push for a law that has absolutely no limits in any point of the pregnancy on abortion?” Hobbs gave a long answer refusing to state whether or not that sums up her position.

However, Bash refused to ask a single question about Katie Hobbs’ grotesque history of racism.

The Gateway Pundit reported on Kari Lake’s State of the Union appearance just before Hobbs, where Kari Lake set Bash up with a perfect question about Katie Hobbs’s racist past.

CNN Turns Kari Lake’s Mic Down As She Squares Off With Dana Bash On State Of The Union But Kari Recorded Her Own Audio – WATCH

TGP has reported extensively on Katie Hobbs’ record of racism, her embracement of slavery in high school, her failure to name one good thing about the Hispanic community in Arizona, and her recent freak-out when confronted by a black reporter.

Jack Posobiec shared a short clip from the interview on Sunday.

Watch the full questioning of Hobbs’ abortion stance and weak debate dodge below.

Hobbs: They’re not going to look at their ballot and say, “damn it, Katie Hobbs didn’t debate her opponent.”

Bash: She just came and sat down with me and answered my questions for a lot of minutes.

Hobbs: Yeah.

Bash: A lot of Democrats are questioning your decision, and they’re saying, you know, it’s the wrong decision. President Biden’s former 2020 co-chair said, “I would debate, and I would want the people of Arizona to know what my platform is.” If you think she’s as dangerous as you’re saying to democracy, is it your responsibility as a candidate who wants to run Arizona to show and explain who their alternative is?

Hobbs: That is exactly what I’m doing right now. And there is a lot more ability to have a conversation with you without her interruptions and shouting to do that.

Katie Hobbs refuses to say why she won’t debate Kari Lake

Even CNN calls her out on this

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— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) October 16, 2022

It appears that in an attempt to run cover for Katie Hobbs, Dana Bash actually referred to the State’s most leftwing paper, the Arizona Republic, as “the Arizona Republican” before reading a critical piece about Hobbs.

The Republic is so biased that they once refused to air an interview with Kari Lake because she destroyed their loser leftist reporter.

CNN’s Dana Bash refers to Arizona’s far-left Arizona Republic as “the Arizona Republican”

Hobbs claimed that Kari Lake “refused” to tell Arizonans where she stands on the issues and that “she’s the one who’s afraid of talking to voters.” Katie Hobbs must think the people of Arizona are stupid.

Kari Lake holds multiple events each day on the campaign trail, and she never shies away from talking to the voters. Lake has even started her own “Ask Me Anything Tour,” where she takes unscripted questions from constituents and the pro-Hobbs Fake News media.

Hobbs also proclaimed to be against medical mandates, saying that politicians “don’t belong in these decisions,” despite her support for mandatory masking and vaccination during the COVID-19 flu.

Watch from The Gateway Pundit on Rumble below:

Bash: Do you support any legal limits on abortion in Arizona?

Hobbs: Look, the fact is right now that we are under an extreme 15-week ban that limits health care options for women who need them. Uh, there’s the potential uh for a complete ban. Right now, that ban is in the courts, but under uh my opponent’s administration, she would support a full ban. She’s called this a great law.

Bash: What do you support?

Hobbs: Look, when you’re talking about late-term abortion that is incredibly extremely rare, and it’s happening if there is if that conversation is happening, it’s because there’s something that’s gone incredibly wrong in the pregnancy. And, doc, politicians do not belong in that decision.

Bash: What are your limits be?

Hobbs: The, the decision about abortion should be between a patient and their doctor.

Bash: So there should be no limits in the law? It should only be decided in the medical office?

Hobbs: Government making these kinds of mandates interferes with the care that doctors need to provide to their patients. They don’t belong in these decisions.

Bash: Okay, so just to be clear, if you become governor, you will push for a law that has absolutely no limits in any point of the pregnancy on abortion? That’s your position, that’s what you would want to be the law of the land in Arizona?

Hobbs: The fact is right now that we have very limited options and that we need to get politicians out of the way and let doctors provide the care that they are trained to provide. The health care that their patients need. Politicians don’t belong in those decisions.

Bash: You declined to participate in a PBS debate against Kari Lake. Here’s what one columnist from the Arizona Republican wrote. Laurie Roberts from the Arizona Republic, this is what she wrote. She wrote, “If Katie Hobbs loses, remember October 12, the day she ran away from confronting Kari Lake. Democrats in Arizona are known for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, but Hobbs’s refusal to debate her opponent on Wednesday represents a new level of political malpractice.” Why won’t you debate her?

Hobbs: Look, Kari Lake has made it clear time and time again that she’s not interested in having substantive in-depth conversations about the issues that matter to Arizonans. She only wants a scenario where she can control the dialogue. And she’s refused to sit down in a one-on-one lengthy conversation to really clarify with Arizonans where she is on the issues. She’s the one who’s afraid of of talking to voters where she’s at, and we are doing everything we can to take, to make our case directly to the voters of Arizona. And I guarantee you, I guarantee you that when Arizonans who are struggling, when they go to open their ballot, when they’re thinking about the fact that they’re not sure how they’re going to put food on the table, they’re rationing their insulin, or they’re thinking about having to drive their niece or their sister or their daughter to California to get the health care that they need. They’re not going to look at their ballot and say, “damn it, Katie Hobbs didn’t debate her opponent.”

Bash: She just came and sat down with me and answered my questions for a lot of minutes.

Hobbs: Yeah.

Bash: A lot of Democrats are questioning your decision, and they’re saying, you know, it’s the wrong decision. President Biden’s former 2020 co-chair said, “I would debate, and I would want the people of Arizona to know what my platform is.” If you think she’s as dangerous as you’re saying to democracy, is it your responsibility as a candidate who wants to run Arizona to show and explain who their alternative is?

Hobbs: That is exactly what I’m doing right now. And there is a lot more ability to have a conversation with you without her interruptions and shouting uh to do that. Uh, and and yes, she did sit down with you. She has refused to do that with any legitimate reporter in the state of Arizona and take her case directly to the voters. She’s only interested in creating a spectacle, and I guarantee you, uh people that are struggling in Arizona right now are not making their decisions about whether whether, over whether or not there was a debate between myself and Kari Lake. They’re going to make their decision based on the person who understands their struggle and has real solutions to try to fix that struggle.

Watch the full interview here.

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