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Abortion Live Updates

Metro councilmembers pitch $500K grant for abortion access and sex education

Alexis Marshall

August 28, 2022

Nashville leaders are responding to a total ban on abortions that’s now taken effect in Tennessee. The law is one of the strictest in the country with no exceptions for rape or incest.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Metro Government, sex ed

Advocates for rape survivors begin lobbying effort to add exceptions to Tennessee’s strict abortion ban

Blake Farmer

August 28, 2022

Heather Meshell
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The Sexual Assault Center in Nashville is launching a campaign directed at Republican state lawmakers to allow abortion for rape and incest, even though they’ve shown almost no interest in exceptions to the law.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Heather Meshell, Lorraine McGuire, rape and incest, Sexual Assault Center, trigger ban

Vanderbilt makes certain policy changes to ‘mitigate’ harm from Tennessee’s all-out abortion ban

Blake Farmer

August 26, 2022

Vanderbilt University Medical Center says it is changing some policies in order to “mitigate” concerns about health and equity created by Tennessee’s abortion ban.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Two months after Roe v. Wade’s fall, Tennessee’s full abortion ban takes effect

Paige Pfleger, Blake FarmerandJulia Ritchey

August 25, 2022

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It’s Day One of Tennessee’s full abortion ban. Our reporters are on the ground reporting on what that looks like.

Filed Under: Abortion In Depth, Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, protests

For now, Tennessee residents needing abortions will have to travel as far as St. Louis or Chicago

Blake Farmer

August 23, 2022

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It will still be a month or more before abortions are available within a three-hour drive of Nashville. Clinics in Carbondale, Ill., are still under construction, even as Tennessee’s total abortion ban takes effect this week.

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

Tennessee’s abortion law does not contain the lifesaving ‘exception’ you may think it does, lawyers say

Paige Pfleger

August 23, 2022

When Tennessee’s abortion ban was originally introduced, lawmakers said the legislation included an exception for the life of the mother. But lawyers say the reality of the law is much more complicated.

Filed Under: Abortion In Depth, Abortion Live Updates, Criminal Justice Tagged With: Abortion, trigger law

What questions do you have about birth control in Tennessee?

Cynthia Abrams

August 17, 2022

This Is Nashville wants to know: What questions do you have about contraception?

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Citizen Nashville, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: birth control, contraception, Roe v. Wade

Abortion wasn’t on the ballot in Tennessee, but it was on the minds of voters

Blake Farmer

August 5, 2022

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After waiting in line for more than an hour, Jacqueline Smith voted at a recreation center in Spring Hill with one thing on her mind — Tennessee’s fleeting abortion access.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Elections 2022

Federal judge orders protesters to stay away from the Mt. Juliet abortion clinic

Blake Farmer

August 2, 2022

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A federal judge has ordered anti-abortion protesters to stay away from the only abortion clinic still operating in Middle Tennessee. Abortions are only allowed up to six weeks gestation, but not for long.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, carafem, Jason Storms, Operation Save America, Waverly Crenshaw

With Roe v. Wade gone, we want to hear your stories about getting healthcare in Middle Tennessee

WPLN Staff

August 1, 2022

We want to hear your stories about life after Roe v. Wade. Have you faced any obstacles receiving reproductive care, including contraceptives? Have you had to travel out of state to receive abortion care? Are you currently pregnant and concerned about giving birth in Tennessee?

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, abortion rights, birth control, contraception, pregnancy

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