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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.
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]
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 ...
More:Fact check: A new Tennessee abortion law does not ban Plan B, 'morning-after' pills. Maternal health equity. Sen. London Lamar, D-Memphis, hopes to create a new governor's advisory committee ...
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 ...
The legality of abortion in the United States and the various restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly, depending on the laws of each state or other jurisdiction, although there is no uniform federal law. Some states prohibit abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with few exceptions; others permit it up to a certain point in a ...
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