>>>It appears that constant protesting played a big role in defeating the governor of NC's reelection:
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>Not protesting, but a competent campaign for public awareness of some of the scheming and sneakery to pass legislation the people didn't want. Trump is criticized for the opposite = blurting things out rather than deviousness.
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>>>No, the hospital can decide they don't perform abortions. FWIW, a few years ago, two of my local hospitals proposed a merger. One was a Catholic hospital and it was announced that their policy on abortion would apply at both hospitals. Our community rose up and protested loudly and insistently that that was not acceptable. The merger was scrapped.
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>I watched a similar event that ended with the non-Catholic hospital closing its doors. Yet Trump is evil for damaging others' business?

Trump is in a position of power. The whole world sees what he says and does. He has a special responsibility.

FWIW, neither hospital closed in this case. (And part of the issue was that the non-Catholic hospital was the stronger partner in this case and the community was furious that they were acceding to this demand.) What has actually happened here is that the non-Catholic hospital instead became part of an academic hospital system. I think the Catholic hospital is still solo.

>>>It's good lawmaking, even if you don't like the actual law.
>>>I disagree. The law that Pence signed allowed pure discrimination in the obvious area. Had it stood, it likely would have been overturned by Federal courts, but in the meantime, people would have been hurt by it.
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>So you don't like the law. What about the lawmaking motive for eliminating "complication" (your word) that's the cause of a lot of friction as well as closed hospitals and businesses?

I think passing laws you know are unconstitutional is frivolous and a waste of the taxpayers' money. There's no evidence that this law was an effort to eliminate complication; it was passed to give people permission to discriminate.

Tamar