{"id":164904,"date":"2017-04-14T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=164904"},"modified":"2017-04-14T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:55:56","slug":"tennessee-ag-drops-effort-to-enforce-two-state-pro-life-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-ag-drops-effort-to-enforce-two-state-pro-life-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee attorney general drops effort to enforce two state pro-life measures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tennessee’s attorney general has decided not to continue enforcing two pro-life measures\u00a0in the state, due to their similarity to pro-life laws in Texas,\u00a0which were struck down 5-3 by the Supreme Court of the United States in June 2016.<\/p>\n

According to ABC News<\/a>, one requirement was that abortionists obtain\u00a0hospital admitting privileges, and the other required abortion clinics to meet\u00a0ambulatory surgical center health and safety standards.<\/p>\n

Three abortion centers brought lawsuits against the requirements, reports ABC News: Bristol Regional Women’s Center, The Women’s Center in Nashville and the Memphis Center for Reproductive Health. The state announced this week that another\u00a0reason it has chosen not to enforce the laws is “to avoid the expense and utilization of resources on continued litigation.”<\/p>\n

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The Tennesseean notes<\/a>\u00a0that while the abortion facilities’ lawsuit “also includes a challenge to a 2015 requirement for women obtaining an abortion to undergo a 48-hour waiting period after obtaining counseling on the procedure,” the state will continue in its efforts to\u00a0enforce\u00a0this regulation.<\/p>\n

When the Supreme Court decided in favor of Whole Woman’s Health in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt<\/em> last summer, the majority sided with an abortion conglomerate which has a long and disturbing history\u00a0of health and safety violations<\/a>, further putting women’s health at risk at substandard, noncompliant abortion facilities for the sake of preserving abortion access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennessee’s attorney general has decided not to continue enforcing two pro-life measures\u00a0in the state, due to their similarity to pro-life laws in Texas,\u00a0which were struck down 5-3 by the Supreme Court of the United States in June 2016. 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