Tricia Cotham once spoke of her abortion. Will she help NC Republicans restrict it?
Tricia Cotham announced that she is switching parties to become a member of the House Republican caucus. - North Carolina General Assembly/TNS
April 07, 2023
In 2015, Rep. Tricia Cotham stood on the floor of the North Carolina House of Representatives and bravely spoke about her own experience with abortion. She described how her first pregnancy ended in an abortion after her doctor told her that the pregnancy was not viable and medical intervention would be necessary to save her life. “It was awful. It was painful and it was sad. And it is and was personal,” Cotham said in that speech. Cotham, then a Democrat, was speaking in opposition to a GOP-sponsored bill that would triple North Carolina’s mandatory waiting period for people seeking abortion ...