TO THE EDITOR:
Like some sort of sick April Fools’ joke, the N.C. General Assembly introduced a bill April 1 that directly attacks the health care-providing capacity of UNC Health Care.
House Bill 465 is yet another virulent, restrictive bill hailing from our General Assembly. An identifying factor of this bill, however, is that it bursts our Chapel Hill bubble, and there is very little effort made to disguise the bill as anything other than ideologically driven.
Past bills have placed unnecessary restrictions on abortion clinics with claims of additional safety measures. H.B. 465 flatly states that UNC Health Care Systems cannot use any finances or facilities toward abortion services.
For now, the entire breadth of implications is unclear. There is potential that faculty of UNC’s medical school would no longer be able to teach how to even provide safe abortions.
The UNC Health Care system finds its pulse on our campus, but its services span across the state. It is a public institution that serves a variety of North Carolinians, from the poorest to the wealthiest. The General Assembly has no place in actively preventing our people from obtaining the best health care possible. Tar Heels, let’s stay awake.
Kaori Sueyoshi
Senior
Business administration, political science
