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.
Abortion medication goes underground in Tennessee
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.
With abortions halted in Tennessee, providers focus on helping patients travel
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.
Planned Parenthood may have performed its last abortion in Tennessee
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.
How Tennessee’s Planned Parenthood providers are preparing for the end of abortion access
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.
Examining the local impact of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade
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.
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