Under the executive order, state Cabinet agencies are ordered not to cooperate with prosecution and penalties against health care providers who provided legal reproductive health services,

Democratic North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein issued an executive order Thursday that he believes will further protect reproductive health care access across the state. The order directs

State agencies are now ordered not to cooperate with any potential efforts to restrict access to birth control in North Carolina, and to refuse to help investigate doctors who provide legal abortions or other reproductive health care,

Stein described his policies at a press conference in uptown Charlotte. The order directs Stein’s cabinet agencies to protect doctors providing reproductive health care and protect women’s medical privacy.