Tennessee’s abortion ban takes effect Thursday
Abortion-rights marcher Joy Brooke Fairfield participated in a rally Downtown Saturday May 14, 2022. (Lucy Garrett/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
Criminal defense lawyers say there are effectively no exceptions to the Human Life Protection Act of 2019.
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Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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