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The State of Tennessee attempted to dismiss the case November 1, 2023. [7] [9] In January 2024, the Center filed for a temporary injunction. [8] [9] The case was heard at the Twelfth Judicial District Court on April 4, 2024. [6] [7] [8] During the hearing, plaintiffs argued to expand the state's medical exceptions to include fatal diagnoses ...
The Tennessee Constitutional Amendment: 1, commonly known as Amendment 1 or the No State Constitutional Right to Abortion and Legislative Power to Regulate Abortion Amendment, is an approved legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee that appeared on the ballot on November 4, 2014. [2]
Number of abortion clinics in Tennessee by year. On September 12, 2023, three women filed a lawsuit against the state of Tennessee over the state's abortion ban, stating that they were denied abortions despite having dangerous pregnancy complications. [25] On January 8, 2024, four additional women and two doctors joined the lawsuit. [26]
Allyson "Allie" Phillips, a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the state, wrote a guest opinion column in The Tennessean last September about how she chose to leave the state to get an abortion. She ...
Tennessee's "trigger" law banning abortions went into effect Thursday, making providing abortions a felony in the state. The Tennessee near-total abortion ban, which was enacted in 2019 ...
Like other states, Tennessee's abortion ban only went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade in 2022. It was originally passed in 2019 before many Republicans thought the ...
Tennessee is poised to become the second state in the nation to make it illegal for adults to help minors get an abortion without parental consent, a proposal that is likely to face immediate ...
Abortion is illegal in Tennessee, [201] with exceptions to terminate molar or ectopic pregnancies, to remove a miscarriage, to save the life of someone who is pregnant, or to "prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman". Doctors are permitted to use their "reasonable medical ...