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1 N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-44 et seq. (1969).
2 Id. §§ 14-44, 14-45.
3 Id. § 14-45.1. The statute imposed other conditions. Except in emergency cases, no abortion could be performed unless the attending physician and two other physicians examined the woman and certified in writing the circumstances which they believed justified an abortion. Id. If the woman seeking the abortion was a minor, the written consent of her parents or guardian was required, or her husband, if the minor was married. Id. There was also a residency requirement. Id.
4 In a pre-Roe decision, a three-judge federal court rejected a challenge to the statutes. See Corkey v. Edwards, 322 F.Supp. 1248 (W.D. N.C. 1971), vacated and remanded, 412 U.S. 902 (1973).
5 1973 N.C. Sess. Laws 1057-58, ch. 711, §§ 1, 2.
6 N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-45.1(b) (1986).
7 Because North Carolina’s statute on abortions performed after the twentieth week of pregnancy, see N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14.45.1(b) (2003), does not restrict such abortions to reasons relating to the pregnant woman’s physical health, it probably would allow abortions after that stage of pregnancy for reasons of the woman’s mental health, as well. There are few, if any, abortions that could not be justified on such grounds. As the experience in California demonstrated, mental health exceptions were widely abused. See People v. Barksdale, 503 P.2d 257, 265 (Cal. 1972) (noting that more than 60,000 abortions were reported in 1970, more than 98% of which were performed for alleged reasons of mental health).

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