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Related: About this forumFeminists Fight Back Against Slew of Abortion Restrictions in Tennessee
Feminists Fight Back Against Slew of Abortion Restrictions in Tennessee
When the Tennessee General Assembly reconvenes later this month, theyll be greeted by feminist activists who oppose their lawmakers proposed attacks on reproductive rights.
The Womens March on Nashville will take place on Tuesday, January 13 at 10 AM CST the same day that state legislators will be sworn in and have filed to take up various abortion restrictions now made possible by the passage of Amendment 1. That measure, which passed by a small percentage in November, altered Tennessees constitution and opened the floodgates to previously rejected measures about abortion.
Our legislators will be sworn in on January 13th and as they have already filed legislation attacking our privacy rights, the event organizers wrote on Facebook. It is time to show them how we feel about it. We need to let them know we are watching the bills they bring that take away our privacy rights and we dont plan to quietly sit home while it happens.
Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell (R) said in November that she would be supporting three abortion-related measures in the next legislative session. One, HB 2, would implement a mandatory waiting period of between 24 and 72 hours for an abortion procedure, in which women who wish to receive abortions must undergo an ultrasound while listening to a description of their fetus in the womb and also listen to its heartbeat. Harwell also said she would support a measure like SB 13, which forces doctors to deliver manipulative counseling to women electing to choose abortion including exaggerating the medical severity of the procedure and encouraging her to carry to term and choose adoption. According to the Washington Post, Harwells body also plans to take up a TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) bill requiring stricter clinic inspections.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has struck down variations on all three of these measures in the past, declaring that the state constitution prohibited them. The passage of Amendment 1, which took away privacy rights to abortion from women in the state, now enables lawmakers to push them through nonetheless. Amendment 1 is in direct conflict with a 2000 ruling by the states Supreme Court that deemed abortion an inherently intimate and personal enterprise protected from government interference and was opposed by Tennessee womens groups, OB/GYNs, and major newspapers.
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Feminists Fight Back Against Slew of Abortion Restrictions in Tennessee (Original Post)
niyad
Jan 2015
OP
Yeah, the local Catholic church had a big sign supporting prop 1 by their door . I'm in a suburb of
okaawhatever
Jan 2015
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SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)1. Thank God for Tennessee feminist activists.
Must not be easy being one in Tennessee.
niyad
(113,556 posts)2. must feel very lonely
SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)5. Yeah, kinda like feminist posters on this board. nt
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)6. Yeah, the local Catholic church had a big sign supporting prop 1 by their door . I'm in a suburb of
Nashville, which votes democratic, so I don't regularly engage with people who vote for stuff like prop 1. Like Texas, they're mostly rural.
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