Press Releases

ACLU of NC Urges Gov. Cooper to Veto Anti-Abortion Legislation

“HB 453 flies in the face of racial justice and disability rights and casts a person’s reproductive decisions as discrimination to stigmatize abortion. This legislation presents an unconstitutional ban on abortions before viability and limits people’s access to care based on the government’s...

Andrew Brown Jr. - ACLU of NC Statement on the System Working As Designed

“The decision not to bring charges against those who killed Andrew Brown Jr. is a sign that the system is working as it was designed to. These cases of state-sanctioned murder are not anomalies. They are business as usual. Until we have radically changed the many ways the criminal legal system...