Abortion in Tennessee is illegal from fertilization, except to "prevent the death of the pregnant woman or to prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman".[1]
The ban took effect on August 25, 2022, thirty days after the Tennessee Attorney General notified the Tennessee Code Commission that Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022.[2][3][4][5] Following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, it became the only state with no direct exception in case of risk to the mother's life; rather, there was an affirmative defense included in the ban, meaning that someone who performed an abortion could be charged with a felony, but only had an opportunity to prove that the procedure was necessary — either to prevent the patient from dying or to prevent serious risk of what the law calls "substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function."[6]
The number of abortion clinics in Tennessee decreased over the years, with 128 in 1982, 33 in 1992, and 7 in 2014. There were 12,373 legal abortions in 2014, and 11,411 in 2015.
- ^ HB 0883, Tennessee General Assembly.
- ^ Blumenthal, Paul (2022-06-14). "These States Will Ban Abortion Now That Roe Is Overturned". HuffPost. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ^ Brown, Melissa. "Tennessee files emergency motion to move up timeline for abortion restrictions to take effect". The Tennessean. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ^ Allen, Courtney. "EXPLAINER: When do Tennessee's abortion trigger laws go into effect?". WSMV. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ^ "Tennessee's abortion ban to take effect Aug. 25". The Tennessean. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ "Tennessee's abortion law does not contain the lifesaving 'exception' you may think it does, lawyers say". 23 August 2022.
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