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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 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]
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 ...
Yet the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals argued in a ruling Monday that Tennessee could not use its abortion ban law to “dictate eligibility requirements” for Title X funding. The 31-page ...
Tennessee has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country: the medical procedure is banned without exceptions for rape and incest. Legislation passed this year makes it a felony to recruit ...
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.
What are Tennessee's abortion laws? Where is abortion legal? We answer some of the most asked questions about the procedure in the Volunteer State.