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PR: NC Values Joins National Rally as Supreme Court Hears Landmark Women’s Sports Cases

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January 12th, 2026
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
ashley@ncvalues.org

NC VALUES JOINS NATIONAL RALLY AS SUPREME COURT HEARS LANDMARK WOMEN’S SPORTS CASES

Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two landmark cases—West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Hecox v. Little—that will determine whether states may continue to protect fairness and equal opportunity in women’s and girls’ sports.

To mark this historic moment, the NC Values Coalition team and members of our coalition are traveling to Washington, D.C. to participate in the Rally for Women’s Sports outside the United States Supreme Court to stand with female athletes and advocates who believe women’s sports should be reserved for women.

“This is a defining moment for women’s sports in America,” said NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. “Men should not be allowed to rob women and girls of safety and opportunities for competition in athletics. We are proud to stand with women and girls because they deserve fairness, safety, and equal opportunity in sports.”

Background:

Men and women are biologically different—a reality recognized by science and common sense. These differences, including greater average height and weight, stronger bones, larger muscle mass, and higher energy output in males, create undeniable performance gaps in athletics. That is precisely why women’s sports were created.

West Virginia and Idaho each enacted commonsense laws to protect women’s and girls’ sports by ensuring female teams are reserved for female athletes. In both states, those protections were challenged by transgender activists and the ACLU, resulting in years of litigation and inconsistent lower-court rulings that allowed girls to be displaced from fair competition.

In 2023, the General Assembly passed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act with strong support from NC Values Coalition. This law ensures that athletic teams be designated by sex in public schools and universities in North Carolina. Currently, 27 states have similar laws.

Tomorrow’s arguments give the Supreme Court an opportunity to affirm biological reality and uphold laws designed to protect equal opportunities for women across the United States.

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NC Values Makes Early Round of Endorsements for ‘Legislators of the Year’
NC Values Makes Early Round of Endorsements for ‘Legislators of the Year’

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NC Values Makes Early Round of Endorsements for ‘Legislators of the Year’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 12th, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
ashley@ncvalues.org

NC VALUES MAKES EARLY ROUND OF ENDORSEMENTS FOR ‘LEGISLATORS OF THE YEAR’

The North Carolina Values Coalition has issued early endorsements for Senator Phil Berger, Representative Neal Jackson, Representative Jennifer Balkcom, and Representative Jonathan Almond. All four legislators received our ‘2025 Legislator of the Year’ award for their unwavering support of legislative initiatives that advance our mission of making North Carolina a state where life is valued, marriage & families flourish, and religious freedom thrives.

NC Values Coalition has endorsed Senator Phil Berger for re-election to NC Senate District 26:

“Over the past decade Senator Berger has consistently partnered with NC Values to fight for pro-life, pro-family, and pro-religious liberty legislation,” said Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. “In 2025, he led NC Republicans to pass a sweeping pro-family bill into law that affirms the biological reality of sex, protects girls by segregating sleeping quarters by sex in public schools, protects woman and children from sexual exploitation through online pornography, safeguards parental rights in education, ends taxpayer funding of sex-transition procedures, and facilitates medical malpractice lawsuits for victims of experimental gender transition procedures. He has also delivered important pro-life victories for our state including legislation to save babies who survived botched abortion, end eugenics-based abortion, repeal state funding for abortion, implement consent and waiting periods for abortions, add restrictions on abortion drugs, fund pregnancy centers, and reduce the gestational limit for abortion to 12 weeks. Senator Berger has a proven track record of fighting for policies that help families thrive, and we believe his leadership in the State Senate has advanced historic wins for conservative and pro-family values. Voters in District 26 should reward his historic victories with re-election.”

NC Values Coalition has endorsed Rep. Neal Jackson for re-election to House District 78:

“Rep. Neal Jackson is a champion for family values in the NC House, and we wholeheartedly endorse him for re-election,” said Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. “This year he introduced legislation to safeguard parental rights in education, stop mail-order abortion, prevent the sexual exploitation of women and children, and ensure that parents cannot lose custody of their children simply for raising them according to their biological sex. Rep. Jackson’s record speaks for itself, and we cannot thank him enough for the work he has done to advance life, family, and freedom in our state.”

NC Values Coalition has endorsed Rep. Jennifer Balkcom for re-election to House District 117:

“We are endorsing Rep. Jennifer Balkcom for re-election to the NC House because of her steadfast commitment to advancing family values in our state,” said Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. “This year Rep. Balkcom was a leader in the successful effort to pass legislation that protects girls in sleeping quarters on public school field trips, prevents sexual exploitation of women and children, and ensures that parents cannot lose custody of their children simply for raising them according to their biological sex. She also fought for parents to have the right to consent for all medical decisions for their children and to stop illegal mail-order abortions. We’ve worked with Rep. Balkcom for three impactful years, and she is a powerful voice for women, children, and families in the NC House.”

NC Values Coalition has endorsed Rep. Jonathan Almond for re-election to House District 73:

“Rep. Jonathan Almond is a strong advocate of family values in North Carolina, and we are excited to endorse him for re-election. This year Rep. Almond introduced successful legislation to facilitate medical malpractice lawsuits for victims of experimental gender transition procedures. This first-of-its kind law will help bring justice to victims who have been permanently harmed and deceived by medical providers. Rep. Almond also advanced legislation to increase parental rights in education, prevent sexual exploitation, protect girls in sleeping quarters on public school field trips, and ensure that parents cannot lose custody of their children simply for raising them according to their biological sex. It is important to retain a bright rising leader like Rep. Almond in the NC House in order to advance family values in our state.”

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PR: NC Values Applauds House Vote to End Planned Parenthood Medicaid Funding
PR: NC Values Applauds House Vote to End Planned Parenthood Medicaid Funding

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PR: NC Values Applauds House Vote to End Planned Parenthood Medicaid Funding

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October 22nd, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
ashley@ncvalues.org

NC VALUES APPLAUDS HOUSE VOTE TO END PLANNED PARENTHOOD MEDICAID FUNDING

The North Carolina House today passed House Bill 378 along a 61-47 vote. This legislation protects taxpayers from funding Planned Parenthood. It directs the Department of Health and Human Services to immediately end all Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood and redirect those services to other qualified healthcare providers.

“HB 378 is a victory for life in North Carolina,” said Tami Fitzgerald, Executive Director of the North Carolina Values Coalition. “Today the House ensured that our taxpayer dollars do not fund or subsidize ending the lives of unborn children in our state. We’d like to thank Speaker Hall and the members who voted for this important legislation that protects the conscience of NC taxpayers and promotes a culture of life in our state.”

The passage of this bill comes in the wake of pro-life advancements at national level including: President Donald J. Trump’s January 24th Executive Order 14182 which enforces the Hyde Amendment, ending forced taxpayer funding of elective abortion; Congress’s passage of H.R. 1, which defunded Planned Parenthood at the federal level for the next year; and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood affirming the right of states to bar abortion providers from receiving Medicaid funds.

If HB 378 is signed into law, North Carolina will join four other states—Mississippi, Missouri, Texas and Arkansas —that have statutory prohibitions on tax dollars going to organizations that perform abortion. Governor McMaster signed an Executive Order in 2018 that prohibits South Carolina tax dollars from allowing physicians or professional medical practices that practice abortion from being participants in the Medicaid program. In most states, Planned Parenthood continues to receive state Medicaid funds but cannot use tax dollars for abortion.

Despite recent progress, Planned Parenthood still receives a large portion of its revenue from taxpayer funding. In its 2023-2024 report, the organization reported that its taxpayer funding hit $792.2 million – 34% of its overall revenue that year. The previous year Planned Parenthood performed a record 402,230 abortions. And 96.9% of the time, for women seeking help related to their pregnancy, Planned Parenthood sold them an abortion rather than giving prenatal care. Due to the volume of abortions performed and the emphasis that the organization places on giving women access to abortion, it is impossible to segregate the tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood for abortion from the tax dollars going there for other services. If elected officials across the country are serious about preventing millions of taxpayers from paying for and subsidizing a service that they find morally reprehensible—the ending of an unborn child’s life—they must support legislation like HB 378 to defund Planned Parenthood.

Read the letter to Congress we co-signed with SBA Pro-Life America and others here.