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The ruling also outlined specific pregnancy-related conditions that would now qualify as “medical necessity exceptions” under the ban, which currently does not include exceptions for fetal anomalies or for victims of rape or incest.
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:
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.
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“One year ago, Tennessee faced an instant health emergency for pregnant people when we became a forced birth state,” said Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi.
The only health conditions the amended bill mentions are ectopic and molar pregnancies. It does not mention preeclampsia, for example, and there are no exceptions for rape or incest.
The CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi said the organization has seen an uptick in calls since the abortion ban.
“Girls and women in Tennessee need their fathers and husbands and brothers and sons to step up and vote to end the government’s regulation of women’s bodies.”
“If you think abortion access going away does not affect you, you’re going to be mistaken, because this falls out into all areas of medicine,” said a Tennessee OB-GYN.
The resolution by council member JB Smiley, who is also seeking the Democratic nomination for Tennessee governor, calls on county law-enforcement officials not to enforce state abortion law. City Council approves Frayser expansion of manufactured housing City attorney ready to make recommendation on energy consultant for TVA-MLGW debateRelated stories:
Republican U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty spoke Tuesday, June 28, at the Memphis Rotary Club during a visit to the city that included a defense of former President Donald Trump and a prediction that 2022 midterm elections will produce a “sea change” in Washington. He also visited with the Republican nominee for Shelby County mayor.
The two contenders for Shelby County District Attorney met on “Behind The Headlines” for a discussion on local enforcement of the state’s abortion trigger law, balancing reform with accountability, murder convictions overturned on appeal and dueling campaign ads.
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery wrote to the Sixth Circuit almost immediately after the high court’s decision on Friday, asking it to stay a district court’s injunction immediately and allow the law to take effect.
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has caused a number of states’ “trigger laws” banning abortion to take effect, including Tennessee’s. The state’s attorney general wants another abortion ban, a six-week “heartbeat bill,” to become law sooner than the trigger law.
Abortion access would be severely restricted in Tennessee if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
Days after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a restrictive abortion ban, with the U.S. Supreme Court declining to intervene, an important decision came down from another court that invalidated a similar law signed last year by Gov. Bill Lee.
Gov. Bill Lee is willing to pay the cost, no matter how high, in the legal battle over Tennessee’s new law to block abortions after a Republican-appointed judge stopped the measure from taking effect.
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