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Before recording this episode, Anita would have turned to Google for her burning questions about abortion. But now, she knows better. She meets two abortion doulas who share the practical and philosophical components of their job. They reflect on what has changed for them since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and what's stayed the same for their alternative and community-based networks of care.

A federal judge has ruled that abortions are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy in North Carolina.

The North Carolina attorney general鈥檚 office, representing defendants in a 2019 case that blocked a state law banning most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, has joined plaintiffs in asking a federal court not to restore the ban after the judge suggested his injunction 鈥渕ay now be contrary to law.鈥�

North Carolina鈥檚 Republican General Assembly leaders have asked a federal judge to reinstate a 20-week abortion ban previously thrown out by courts, despite the Democratic attorney general鈥檚 refusal to seek enforcement of the ban after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide abortion protections.

Attorney General Josh Stein was responding to Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore, who called on Stein and the state Justice Department to 鈥渢ake all necessary legal action鈥� to lift an injunction from a 2019 federal court ruling that blocked the state ban.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order shielding out-of-state abortion patients from extradition and prohibiting state agencies under his control from assisting other states' prosecutions of abortion patients who travel for the procedure.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark abortion ruling overturning Roe v. Wade is prompting efforts in liberal states to protect providers and patients who have traveled for a legal procedure.

North Carolina's Democratic attorney general has not yet indicated whether he will ask a court to lift the injunction on a state law banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Across North Carolina, clinics that provide abortions have seen a spike in patient calls after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday.