Court lets Tennessee 6-week abortion ban take effect

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "Abortion bans rob people of their ability to make the decisions that are best for themselves, their lives, and their futures," said Ashley Coffield, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, in a statement.
47% : Planned Parenthood was not performing abortions at its facilities in Nashville and Memphis on Monday in anticipation of court action to unblock the six-week ban, said spokesperson Matt Anderson.
45% : Specifically, the ban halts abortion once cardiac activity is detected, which is around six weeks in pregnancy -- when most women don't know they're pregnant.
42% : The action by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes before Tennessee's other abortion ban, the so-called trigger ban, is expected to restrict abortion almost entirely by mid-August, according to a newly detailed legal interpretation by the state attorney general.
42% : "It is unconscionable that Tennesseans will lose access to abortion in their communities because of this decision."
38% : A federal court on Tuesday allowed Tennessee's ban on abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy to take effect, citing the Supreme Court's decision last week overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights case.
37% : A federal court on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, allowed Tennessee's ban on abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy to take effect, citing the Supreme Court's decision last week to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights case.
23% : In Louisiana on Monday, a state district judge in New Orleans temporarily blocked enforcement of that state's trigger-law ban on abortion, after abortion rights activists argued that it is unclear.

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