The Republican-dominated North Carolina General Assembly overrode Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of a post-12-week abortion ban thanks to its supermajority, putting the law in place thanks to a turncoat former Democrat, per CNN.
Tricia Cotham, a long-time Democrat who announced in April that she changed Parties, was the deciding vote in the state house that gave Republicans the required three-fifths supermajority to override the veto. Cotham ran and won reelection on a strong pro-choice stance, even sharing details of her own abortion. Cotham, however, changed her vote when she changed Parties, reportedly because she was promised the chair of the state house’s education committee.