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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.
Jennifer Pepper, CEO of Memphis-based Choices, will discuss reproductive and sexual rights in the Americas during a webinar that will be simultaneously interpreted into English, Spanish and Portuguese.
When the U.S. Supreme Court undid Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, Choices Center for Reproductive Health president and CEO Jennifer Pepper found a way to open a clinic in Illinois, where abortions are legal.
“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.”
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.
The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk.
“The executive order ... protects contraception and providers who are going to be needing to do their jobs to save the women that we’re going to see an influx of,” said one local OB-GYN. “I think that’s a good start.”
“I find it easy to understand why women see the overturning of Roe v. Wade as rolling back a broad range of rights for women that goes well beyond the matter of abortion.”
The Memphis gathering was one of several Planned Parenthood rallies in cities across the United States. The marches were organized after a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion leaked May 2 suggesting the landmark Roe v. Wade law could be restricted or overturned in the future.
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