Stam v. State

BRANCH, Chief Justice.

By his first assignment of error, plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in concluding that a human fetus is not a “person” within the protection guaranteed by Article I, Sections 1 and 19 of the North Carolina Constitution. Plaintiffs second assignment of error is to the trial court’s conclusion that the state funding of these abortions does not violate Article V, Section 5 of our Constitution requiring every act which levies a tax to “state the special object to which it is to be applied.”

We have carefully examined- the unanimous decision of the Court of Appeals…