By Selena Hill (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Jul 04, 2013 03:08 PM EDT

In a 29-12 vote, North Carolina state Senate Republicans successfully passed a bill Wednesday morning banning Sharia Law and restricting women's abortion rights.

Pro-choice advocates not only objected to House Bill 695's anti-abortion measures, but also to Republicans' surreptitious moves, sneaking abortion amendments into a bill that was originally proposed to forbid the use of Islamic law in North Carolina family courts. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory admitted that the Senate unfairly rushed the amendments on Tuesday night saying, "When the Democrats were in power, this is the way they did business," reports the Huffington Post. "It was not right then and it is not right now. Regardless of what party is in charge or what important issue is being discussed, the process must be appropriate and thorough."

The amendments would prevent state health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act from offering policies that cover abortion, restrict doctors' ability to administer abortion-inducing medication, and impose new regulations on abortion clinics which, as a result, would shut down all but one clinic in the state.

The updated bill also would prohibit gender-selective abortions and require a physician to be physically present during an entire surgical abortion and when a woman takes an abortion-inducing drug, states the Associated Press.

"It seems to me that they're trying to pass under cover of darkness legislation that would not otherwise be passed," Suzanne Buckley, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina told the HuffPo. "They're trying to pull a Texas."

Supporters of the bill argued that it would make abortion procedures safer for women and dismissed concerns that it was being unfairly rushed through the legislature.

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