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Planned Parenthood

Nashville lawyers and doctors offer a few warnings before the abortion ban takes effect

Blake Farmer

August 11, 2022

Planned Parenthood panel

Lawyers and doctors in Nashville are trying to spread some advice before abortion becomes illegal in the state on Aug. 25. For starters, they say abortion will actually be illegal in Tennessee — not just inaccessible.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy

Abortion medication goes underground in Tennessee

Blake Farmer

July 5, 2022

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At a rally in Nashville, Planned Parenthood organizer Julie Edwards looked out at some of the “back alley abortion” imagery on signs, including bloody coat hangers. But Edwards told the crowd, driven into the streets by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on abortion rights, that it’s not like the old days before Roe v. Wade.

Filed Under: Abortion In Depth, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, medication abortion, Planned Parenthood

With abortions halted in Tennessee, providers focus on helping patients travel

Blake Farmer

June 28, 2022

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But there’s already a public effort to throw up roadblocks: Anti-abortion activists say their next legislative fight is trying to limit abortions across state lines.

Filed Under: Abortion In Depth, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood may have performed its last abortion in Tennessee

Blake Farmer

June 27, 2022

Updated Tuesday at 10 a.m. Planned Parenthood clinics in Tennessee have stopped providing abortions because of the legal uncertainty around state law. The clinics in Nashville and Memphis did not resume operations Monday as scheduled, even though the federal appeals court had not yet acted on the state’s 6-week abortion ban.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Ashley Coffield, Planned Parenthood

How Tennessee’s Planned Parenthood providers are preparing for the end of abortion access

Julia Ritchey

June 24, 2022

Planned Parenthood

Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, told reporters on Friday that they are booked with patients through July 1, and are trying to see people as quickly as they can before a ban goes into effect.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, clinics, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, Tennessee

Examining the local impact of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade

Steve Haruch

June 24, 2022

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The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health this morning, overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the constitutional right to abortion.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Abortion, Abortion Care for Tennessee, Health Care, Healthy and Free Tennessee, Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court, Vanderbilt University

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