North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper stated Sunday that the state’s new 12-week abortion regulation that was handed over his veto was a deal struck between “right-wing” Republicans.

“This bill was contradictory, conflicting, confusing. They wrote it in the middle of the night,” Mr. Cooper, a Democrat, stated on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s a compromise between the right wing and the radical right wing.”

The regulation bans most abortions after 12 weeks of being pregnant and features a obligatory 72-hour ready interval for the process. There are 20-week exceptions for rape and incest, and a 24-week exception for “life-limiting” fetal abnormalities. 

Republicans within the state Legislature, who've a supermajority, overrode Mr. Cooper’s veto of the laws. 

“We know that Republicans are unified in their assault on women’s reproductive freedom,” Mr. Cooper stated. “Not a single one of them stood up even when they had made promises to the people that they weren’t going to change North Carolina’s abortion law. That tells us where we are right now.”

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