The Playboy Forum
August, 1967
Abortion: North CarolinaNorth Carolina's amended abortion law has been ratified and signed into effect. It passed the Senate (50 members) with only one dissenting vote. The House passed it by a greater than two-to-one majority.This law provides that an abortion is permissible if a licensed doctor can establish that there is grave danger to the life or health of the mother, or that there is substantial risk that the child would be born with grave physical or mental defect or that the pregnancy re...
