Opinion: Tennessee’s near-total abortion ban will impact Shelby County disproportionately
Several hundred protestors participated in the march for Planned Parenthood in Downtown Memphis, Saturday, May 14 2022. (Lucy Garrett/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
Sarah Hunter Simanson
Sarah Hunter Simanson is a Memphis-based freelance writer who received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is working on her first novel. Her writing has appeared in The LA Times, HuffPost, Salon, Travel + Leisure, The Daily Memphian, and elsewhere.
We must fight for abortion rights, especially for legal exemptions for medical complications as well as pregnancies caused rape and incest, and impregnated children.
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