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Tennessee laws denied Allie Phillips an abortion. Now she’s running for office.

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Rachel IacovoneWPLN News
Demonstrators marched from the Tennessee State Capitol to the Metro Courthouse on Friday, June 24, 2022, to protest the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended federal abortion rights.
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Abortion is expected to be one of the important issues in the upcoming election for voters and candidates alike.

Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with Allie Phillips, who is running for a seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives after she was impacted by the state’s abortion restrictions. She’s running for Tennessee’s 75th district, northwest of Nashville.

This segment aired on Here & Now on Jan. 31, 2024.

Rachel Iacovone, Director of Multiplatform Publishing

Rachel Iacovone (YAH-kuh-VOAN-ee) is WPLN's Director of Multiplatform Publishing, which is a long way of saying she leads all the ways the news reaches you (this website, social media, This Is Nashville and more). She began her public radio career covering politics in Florida during the 2016 presidential race. In 2019, Rachel came to Nashville as a local Morning Edition, and later All Things Considered, host before her passion for data deep dives, visualizations, photography and social media storytelling pulled her off air and put her online fully.

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