anti-abortion measures in the anti-Sharia bill is that all but one clinic could be closed, causing more unintended pregnancies because women would not have access to birth control and family planning.

"Furthermore, you shut them down and women are still going to want to have abortions," he continued. "We as a state and a nation have been there in the '60s and '70s, we know what the consequences are. Please, let us not go back to those days."

"The irony that you all attached these anti-abortion provisions on the anti-Sharia law is really astounding," Stein pointed out. "That's what this bill says, it's about some foreign law, anti-Sharia law. There's not a single instance of anything like that appearing in the North Carolina courts. And yet, you're playing to people's base fears by promoting this.

"When we don't have anything to fear from the Sharia types, what we have to fear is from the North Carolina General Assembly Republican Senate impinging on people's fundamental constitutional rights."