Governor Josh Stein has taken bold steps to protect reproductive freedom in North Carolina. In his first month in office, he issued an Executive Order to protect abortion providers and patients, patient privacy, and access to safe and legal reproductive health care medications and birth control. Prior to taking office as Governor in 2025, Governor Stein served two terms as Attorney General and repeatedly fought attempts to roll back reproductive rights, including suing to ensure broad access to reproductive care, refusing to defend unconstitutional anti-abortion laws, and urging courts to block laws that deny women access to abortion when a pregnancy threatens a woman’s life. He pushed to protect a woman’s right to travel out of the state to seek abortion care and filed multiple amicus briefs defending access to medication abortion.
The Executive Order directs cabinet agencies to safeguard medical privacy, ensures women receive accurate information about their pregnancies, and protects doctors who provide lawful reproductive health care.
Our state has seen alarming attacks on women’s reproductive rights over the past few years, and I remain committed to doing everything in my power to protect women’s freedoms and their privacy.
