As an abortion provider in North Carolina, I already see the effects of 20-week abortion bans. I have had to turn patients away, sending them across state lines to Georgia and Virginia, to access abortion services.

I have had to tell many families who are dealing with recent diagnoses of fetal anomalies and genetic syndromes that unfortunately, they do have to rush this decision, which may be one of the hardest decisions they’ve ever had to make, on whether to continue or terminate the pregnancy, because we only have days to perform an abortion within this state.

I have had to coordinate medically unnecessary injections for fetuses at 20 weeks, fetuses that would never be viable outside the womb, in order for a mother to undergo an induction of labor for lethal fetal anomalies at her home hospital rather than traveling to the tertiary center in the state.