{"id":189340,"date":"2018-10-04T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=189340"},"modified":"2018-10-03T22:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T03:23:05","slug":"tennessee-amendment-1-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-amendment-1-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee’s pro-life Amendment 1 stands after Supreme Court rejects challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a victory for pro-lifers this week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined<\/a> to hear a challenge to Tennessee’s Amendment 1; therefore, it will be allowed to stand. The amendment, approved by voters in a 2014 ballot measure, “clarified that the state Constitution contains no right to abortion,” as Live Action News’ Calvin Freiburger previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Amendment was a long time coming, finding its start in 2000 after Planned Parenthood of Middle Tennessee and the ACLU challenged a state law and won — one provision required second trimester abortions to be done in hospitals, and one required a 48-hour waiting period with “in-person counseling by physicians giving state-mandated information.” At the time, however, The Tennesseean notes<\/a> that the ruling “went even further, holding that the Tennessee Constitution provided an independent right to privacy and greater protections for reproductive rights than the United States Constitution.” (A second trimester abortion is shown in the video below.)<\/p>\n