Legislature should focus on supporting Tennesseans instead of banning abortion | Opinion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Universal health care, or Medicaid expansion, would mean more people can get the health care they need not just during pregnancy but across their lifetime.
57% : There are ways the Tennessee legislature can better care for its people, such as ensuring childcare is affordable and high-quality, improving public education, and addressing homelessness and food insecurity.
55% : The recent arson that burned the Planned Parenthood in Knoxville to the ground is already proof of the lengths anti-abortion activists are willing to go to threaten and condemn those involved in needed care.
46% : Abortion is a routine, low-risk medical procedure that, barring unnecessary restrictions, can safely be completed in a single clinical encounter (via medication or a procedure) or delivered remotely via telehealth (medication only).
39% : Tennessee lawmakers are proposing a draconian bill (HB2779/SB2582) that completely bans abortion at any stage of gestation and allows anyone to sue abortion providers and loved ones of abortion patients for a $10,000 bounty.
39% : Banning abortion leads not only to an increase in dangerous, illegal abortions, but also would increase maternal mortality, which is already abysmally high in the U.S.
38% : Tennessee's state lawmakers have repeatedly devalued those seeking an abortion by adding gratuitous ultrasound viewing and medically unwarranted waiting periods, and requiring scientifically inaccurate information be shared about the dangers of abortion or the ability to reverse a medication abortion, the latter of which is not possible and can be dangerous to try.
35% : Organized by the Women's March, hundreds of protests took place across the nation to decry the Texas law banning abortion after six weeks.

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