PR: NC Values Praises President Trump’s Executive Orders that Stop Gender Madness
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January 29th, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
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NC VALUES PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT STOP GENDER MADNESS
“We are extremely grateful to President Trump for the actions he has taken to curb the transgender madness and restore sanity, science, and safety to American society,” said NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. Since taking office nine days ago, Trump has signed three separate Executive Orders aimed at protecting women, children, and society at large from the harmful effects of gender ideology. NC Values Coalition has been on the front lines of this issue for 9 years, and having the President’s support is extremely helpful to our continued efforts here in North Carolina.
One of NC Values’ top legislative priorities in 2025 is to protect girls and women from the harmful effects of transgender policies that allow men to identify as women and thereby rob them of their dignity, safe spaces, protection under non-discrimination laws, and distinctiveness as women. “North Carolina must stop the gender insanity and return to the common sense understanding that men are men, women are women, and men do not belong in women’s private spaces. Trans- affirming policies harm women and girls, put children on the front lines of the gender confusion battle, and create chaos in general,” said Fitzgerald.
Background: The Executive Order Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government says the Federal government only recognizes two sexes—male and female—and goes on to describe the sexes as immutable categories determined at conception by biology. It also prevents men from using women’s private spaces including bathrooms and locker rooms.
We appreciate that the Executive Order Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness not only contains a directive for the Pentagon to determine a policy for transgender service members, but also prohibits men from using women’s private spaces in military facilities.
Yesterday Trump signed the order titled Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation which says that the federal government will not fund, promote, or support chemical and surgical mutilation for the purpose of transitioning a person under 19 years of age from one sex to the other sex for. It goes on to say that these treatments leave the children with costly medical bills, regret, and sometime result in sterility. The executive order also directs the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end chemical and surgical mutilation of children. In addition, the Secretary of HHS is instructed to end chemical and surgical mutilation of children through HHS programs, and the Department of Defense is instructed to end chemical and surgical mutilation of children in the TriCare system.
NC Values played a pivotal role in ending gender affirming care for minors in North Carolina when the Republican-led General Assembly enacted a law barring medical professionals from providing hormone therapy, puberty-blockers and gender-transition surgeries to anyone under 18 in 2023. President Trump’s executive order carries this out at the federal level.
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PR: NC Values Responds to Governor Stein’s Executive Order on Abortion
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January 16th, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
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NC VALUES RESPONDS TO GOVERNOR STEIN’S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON ABORTION
With all the serious challenges facing North Carolinians, Governor Stein’s Executive Order No. 8 entitled “Reproductive Rights” shows front and center just where his priorities lie—with enshrining a culture of death in North Carolina as best he can.
The Order is legally problematic in several ways. First, it flies in the face of the Full Faith and Credit Clause of our federal Constitution. That constitutional provision requires states to recognize the laws and judgments of other states, because it attempts to protect from prosecution medical personnel who violate the laws of another state. Shield laws run roughshod over this constitutional protection. Secondly, Stein’s attempt to make North Carolina a shield law state is illegal because his actions exceed his executive authority.
Shield laws are particularly egregious with the rise of the abortion drug cartel. Enacted in several states, these laws protect doctors, pharmacies and website operators from facing prosecution or civil liability for violating abortion laws in other states.
North Carolinians will be hurt by these shield laws. Our law prohibits the shipment of abortion pills into the State unless the shipment is in compliance with our informed consent, waiting period, and parental consent requirements. Yet, reportedly, we have 2,000 shipments coming to N.C. each month from these states from doctors, pharmacies and websites operating with no consequences. Stein is attempting to make North Carolina a participant in this cartel by providing the same protection for abortion pill providers legally affiliated with the State.
Finally, the order directs NCDHHS to provide “information about the differences between healthcare providers and other entities that offer services to pregnant women including differences in available services and applicable patient privacy laws.” But North Carolina already has a specific statute which dictates the content of that information. By adding to those requirements, Stein is overstepping his authority as governor. Further, this provision is unnecessary because all pregnancy care centers in North Carolina comply with existing privacy laws.
Today Josh Stein showed North Carolina that he is committed to use his office as Governor—and is even willing to go beyond the powers assigned to that office—to advance an extreme abortion agenda that harms North Carolina’s families and future.
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PR: NC Values Responds to Texas Lawsuit Against NY Doctor Who Prescribed Abortion Pills to Texas Resident
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December 16th, 2024
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
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NC VALUES RESPONDS TO TEXAS LAWSUIT AGAINST NY DOCTOR WHO PRESCRIBED ABORTION PILLS TO TEXAS RESIDENT
Austin, TX – Texas is suing NY-based doctor Margaret Daly Carpenter for violating the state’s protections against harmful abortion pills by prescribing them to a Texas resident through telemedicine.
The lawsuit is the first known legal challenge to so-called “shield laws” which protect doctors in pro-abortion states who send abortion pills to patients in pro-life states.
According to the lawsuit, the Texas patient was allegedly prescribed mifepristone and misoprostol to induce an abortion and was later taken to the hospital to be treated for severe bleeding.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement on Friday, “In Texas, we treasure the health and lives of mothers and babies, and this is why out of state doctors may not illegally and dangerously prescribe abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents.”
NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald applauded the news, saying:
“Attorney General Paxton is exactly right: out-of-state abortionists must not be allowed to circumvent state law by prescribing and sending abortion pills in the mail. It is a crime to ship these drugs directly to pregnant women in North Carolina, but the pills are still pouring into our state by mail. North Carolina law needs to be strengthened in order to hold people responsible who are sending illegal and dangerous abortion pills to vulnerable North Carolina women.”
Earlier this year The Guardian reported that North Carolina has seen an average of almost 2,000 medication abortions per month through shield laws.
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