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In 2015 Tennessee established a required 48 hour waiting period before obtaining an abortion. [11] The state legislature was one of eight states nationwide that tried, and failed, to pass a bill to ban early abortion in 2017. [12] They tried again in 2018, where they were one of ten states that tried and failed to pass a fetal heartbeat bill. [12]
A fetal heartbeat bill (SB 1274) was signed into law by then-Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin in April 2012 that requires an abortion provider to offer a woman the opportunity to hear the conceptus's heartbeat before ending the pregnancy, and applies when the conceptus is at least eight weeks old. The bill took effect in November 2012.
A meta-analysis published in 2011 found that such tests are reliable more than 98% of the time, as long as they are taken after the seventh week of pregnancy. [1] [2] Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and amniocentesis are two rather invasive testing procedures. These may, in principle, be performed as early as the 8th and the 9th week of pregnancy.
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This 2014 map shows 60-mile access to abortion providers in Texas. An abortion clinic is a medical facility that provides abortions. Abortion clinics may be private or public medical practices or nonprofit organizations. In 27 major cities, and much of rural America, most people live 100 miles or more from an abortion clinic. [2]
The Farm is an intentional community in Lewis County, Tennessee, near the community of Summertown, Tennessee, [2] based on principles of nonviolence and respect for the Earth. It was founded in 1971 by Stephen Gaskin and 300 spiritual seekers from Haight-Ashbury and San Francisco.