A lawsuit challenging federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions lacks standing, a federal judge in Arkansas ruled on Friday.
Seven Tennessee women were denied medically necessary abortions. They just had their first day in court.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, seven patients and two doctors are arguing that Tennesseans are being wrongfully denied medically needed abortions because state law vagueness leaves doctors in the lurch.
Asked to clear up abortion bans, GOP leaders blame doctors and misinformation for the confusion
In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear, resulting in denied treatment to some pregnant women in need.
The year after a denied abortion
Mayron Hollis nearly died giving birth, but that was only the beginning. She got pregnant in Tennessee in 2022 after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. She didn’t have money to travel out of state, so she continued the pregnancy.
As Tennessee lawmakers continue cracking down on abortion, concern about medical record privacy grows
As Tennessee’s abortion restrictions continue to evolve, there is growing concern about how much privacy the law gives to patients who travel from this state to clinics where abortion is unrestricted, like the one in Carbondale, Illinois.
Tennessee laws denied Allie Phillips an abortion. Now she’s running for office.
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.
A Tennessee lawmaker helped pass a strict abortion law. He’s now trying to loosen it.
Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state’s strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
A new lawsuit says Tennessee’s abortion ban gives patients two choices: out-of-state abortions or stillbirth
Tennessee’s abortion ban is facing another legal challenge, and it hinges on the law’s ambiguity around medical exceptions.
Gov. Bill Lee signs narrow exceptions to Tennessee’s ban on abortion. Advocates say it won’t help the state’s maternal mortality rate.
Tennessee has adopted narrow exceptions to the state’s abortion ban. Gov. Bill Lee signed the legislation into law Friday, which will allow doctors to perform an abortion if it saves the life of the patient. The law doesn’t make exceptions for rape or incest.
Narrow exceptions to Tennessee’s abortion ban are heading to the governor’s desk
Tennessee’s Senate has passed narrow exceptions to the state’s abortion ban, which is among the strictest in the country. The bill now heads to the governor’s desk.
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