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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 ...
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]
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]
Tennessee instituted its abortion ban two months after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the federal right to abortion with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in June 2022.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Federal officials do not have to reinstate $7 million in family planning grant funding to the state while a Tennessee lawsuit challenging federal rules regarding abortion ...
Tennessee's near-total abortion ban went into effect in August 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court abolished the right to an abortion. The Tennessee General Assembly in April 2023 created a medical ...
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
The state’s trigger law creating a near total ban on abortion was approved in 2019 and went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade’s federal abortion protections in 2022.