Dear Friend,

For the first time in 50 years, North Carolina legislators have the opportunity to save tens of thousands of pre-born babies annually from abortion violence, to protect women, and to provide life-saving alternatives to the brave mothers who choose life.

Two options have been floated by the General Assembly. The first is a Heartbeat Act that would protect unborn babies from abortion at the point a heart beat is detected (6-weeks). The other is a bill to protect unborn babies starting at 13-weeks, when babies’ pain receptors are starting to develop.

Any legislator who calls themselves “pro-life” should want to save as many unborn babies from abortion as possible.

Based on 2020 data from the Department of Health and Human Services, a 13-week bill will save only 13% of the unborn babies currently being aborted, while a heartbeat bill will save 86% of those babies. That’s a difference of 21,902 lives.

And that doesn’t even consider that abortion has increased by 37% in NC since Dobbs, making us the highest in the nation. Passing a 13-week limitation on abortion will ensure we remain an abortion destination, because almost every state around us has protected pre-born babies at conception or detection of a heartbeat.

For decades, Republicans have campaigned on being pro-life. Being pro-life is easy when you can’t really do anything because of Roe v. Wade. But now saving all unborn lives from abortion is a real possibility. 

Do you believe we should protect the heartbeats of the unborn and save as many lives in NC as possible? If so, would you consider taking a minute to use our time-saving click-to-contact tool to easily email your NC representatives and ask them to pass a Heartbeat Act?

Sincerely,

Tami & Team
NC Values

PS: For more information on the Heartbeat Bill, check out our 1-pager Heartbeat Act brief, and this op-ed of mine that got posted in the Carolina Journal.