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The number of abortion clinics in Tennessee decreased over the years, with 128 in 1982, 33 in 1992, and 7 in 2014. There were 12,373 legal abortions in 2014, and 11,411 in 2015. The 2023 American Values Atlas reported that, in their most recent survey, 53% of people from Tennessee said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. [8]
On April 22, 2019, Tennessee created a trigger law that would prohibit abortion from the point of fertilization in the case that Roe v. Wade was overturned. [1] On May 14, 2019, Tennessee prohibited abortions after the fetus was viable, generally at some point between weeks 24 and 28.
As Tennessee prepares to become the second U.S. state to enact a ban against adults helping minors get an abortion without parental permission, a state Democratic lawmaker and reproductive rights ...
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 ...
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]
A tragic consequence of Tennessee’s abortion law led to reports about pregnant women with complications waiting for hours while doctors begged for the legal go-ahead to operate and avoid ...
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 ...
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 ...