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Ashley Coffield talked on “Behind The Headlines” about the impact of the 2-year-old law and the political effort to flip seats in the Tennessee Legislature based on Republican votes on abortion access. Opinion: What happens in Nashville matters in Memphis, and it’s time we fight backRelated content:
Since the abortion ban, more than 10,000 individuals have left Tennessee to get abortions. “This is impacting our state in all sorts of ways,” said Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi.
Easily accessible for out-of-state patients, Planned Parenthood’s Carbondale health center is just four miles from the clinic Memphis-based Choices Center for Reproductive Care opened shortly after Tennessee banned abortion.
Within the first five days of resuming Title X family-planning services, Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi had served 375 patients in Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville.
Tennessee was removed from the Title X program earlier this year and lost $7.1 million in annual federal dollars for its noncompliance around pregnancy options counseling in the state, where abortion has been banned.
Plaintiffs here include three women who had high-risk pregnancies and were denied abortions at home.
Outside Planned Parenthood’s Memphis Health Center, supporters joined Francie Hunt on the first leg of her 538-mile trek across Tennessee to protest the state’s abortion ban.
Federal and state funds for local prevention efforts, including comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education in schools, began drying up before the pandemic.
A federal court has blocked temporarily a state law that forces abortion clinics to tell patients about the potential to “reverse” a medical abortion.
In a largely symbolic gesture, Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi is taking back its endorsement of Democratic state Representative Joe Towns of Memphis in last year's primary and general elections because of Towns' recent vote in favor of the “fetal heartbeat” bill.
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