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Tennessee Right to Life

Tennessee’s main anti-abortion group now backs an exception to the state’s total ban

Blaise Gainey

March 13, 2023

Tennessee Right to Life is supporting a measure that would add exceptions to the state’s abortion law. The changes they made assure the group no abortions will take place unless they save the life of the mother.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, Abortion, General Assembly, Ken Yager, legislature, Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee Legislature, Tennessee Right to Life, tnleg, tnpol, Will Brewer

A leading anti-abortion group is feuding with Republicans over revising the Tennessee’s abortion law

Blaise Gainey

February 15, 2023

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Republicans are trying to clean up the state’s abortion law to more explicitly allow doctors to save the life of a pregnant person. But that proposal is drawing fire from the state’s leading anti-abortion group.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, Abortion, Cameron Sexton, General Assembly, legislature, Tennessee Legislature, Tennessee Right to Life, tnleg, tnpol, Will Brewer

‘We need to defend this law’: Inside an anti-abortion meeting with Tennessee’s GOP lawmakers

Kavitha Surana, ProPublica

November 15, 2022

Anti-abortion groups helped write and pass laws that banned abortion as soon as Roe v. Wade was overturned. These groups see Tennessee’s ban as the country’s strongest — and they want to keep it that way, according to audio reviewed by ProPublica.

Filed Under: Abortion In Depth, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, abortion rights, Mark Pody, Richard Briggs, Ryan Williams, Susan Lynn, Tennessee Right to Life, Will Brewer

Tennessee’s abortion ban has some employers rethinking benefits, and some employees looking to relocate

Alexis Marshall

August 1, 2022

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Lyndsay Kash works at the clothing shop Marine Layer in the 12 South shopping district. When she saw the news that Roe v. Wade was overturned, she was shocked.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Health Care, health insurance, Roe v. Wade, Tennessee Right to Life

Tennessee’s anti-abortion advocates are celebrating, and eyeing next steps in the abortion battle

Rose Gilbert

June 24, 2022

Tennessee Right to Life
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Tennessee anti-abortion advocates are celebrating the overturning of Roe v. Wade and discussing the future of anti-abortion activism in the state. 

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, pregnancy, Tennessee, Tennessee Right to Life

As more women seek abortion pills, Tennessee lawmakers are cracking down on them

Blake Farmer

March 2, 2022

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Tennessee’s legislature is joining a few other Republican-led states in advancing new restrictions on abortion pills, which have grown more common than surgical abortions. A bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party line vote Tuesday night would add criminal penalties.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics Tagged With: Abortion, medication abortion, Mike Bell, Planned Parenthood, Tennessee Right to Life

After Another Legal Setback, A Tennessee Anti-Abortion Group Wants To Re-Evaluate Their Strategy

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

June 29, 2020

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A U.S. Supreme Court decision is being described as a “small victory” for abortion rights supporters in Tennessee, and it’s causing a leading anti-abortion group to call for a reset on opponents’ strategy.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Ashley Coffield, Brian Harris, Planned Parenthood, Tennessee Right to Life, U.S. Supreme Court

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