WataugaWatch: The Other Shoe Drops: Women's Rights in NC Will Be Curtailed

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

The Other Shoe Drops: Women's Rights in NC Will Be Curtailed

Photo Travis Long, News & Observer

The Republican male bosses in the General Assembly sent their handmaiden women out to face the public yesterday to announce their newly proposed 12-week ban on the right to an abortion. Turned out, one of the women, Rep. Sarah Stevens, took the opportunity to do some standup comedy. "This is a pro-woman, holistic approach." Stevens said.

The male bosses intend to pass their new law quickly, this week, before opposition can build.

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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