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The state of Tennessee has agreed to pay the legal fees for abortionists who sued the state over an executive order by Governor Bill Lee that banned most abortions amid the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.\u00a0According to Tennessee Lookout<\/a>, the settlement of $249,000 was agreed to by Attorney General Herbert Slatery III and five Tennessee abortion providers. It will cover the legal costs associated with the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Bristol Regional Women’s Center, CHOICES, the Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, the Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health, Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, and Dr. Kimberly Looney \u2014\u00a0an OB\/GYN affiliated with Planned Parenthood \u2014 sued against the pandemic-related emergency orders which shut down non-essential medical procedures in the early days of the pandemic. As abortion facilities in various parts of the country were closed due to their lack of necessity, abortionists argued that abortion is essential, and thus filed lawsuits.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Tennessee\u2019s 48-hour abortion waiting period to remain in effect<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Executive Order 25 aimed to stop most surgical abortions along with all other elective medical procedures in order to conserve personal protective equipment for the medical professionals who were saving lives amid the initial COVID-19 outbreak \u2014 not those choosing to end lives through abortion. The order was signed in April 2020 and abortionists challenged it within days.<\/p>\n

A Nashville judge blocked the order from applying to abortion only, while allowing it to remain in place to prohibit actual medical procedures. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals kept the injunction<\/a> in place and rejected a request from State attorneys to hear the case.\u00a0The courts ruled the governor’s order to be unlikely to be found constitutional.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased that the court has ruled in our favor and covered court costs, but it never should have come to this,\u201d said Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood Tennessee and North Mississippi. \u201cAbortion is essential healthcare. Using COVID-19 as a pretext to prohibit abortion access served no public health benefit and was nothing more than a blatantly political move by the governor and a waste of taxpayer dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abortion deliberately ends the life of a human being and therefore cannot be reasonably defined as essential health care<\/a>. In the event that a mother’s life is at risk, emergency preterm delivery is faster and safer for the mother than an abortion, and if the child is 21 weeks gestation, he or she has a chance of surviving outside the womb.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The state of Tennessee has agreed to pay the legal fees for abortionists who sued the state over an executive order by Governor Bill Lee that banned most abortions amid the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.\u00a0According to Tennessee Lookout, the settlement of $249,000 was agreed to by Attorney General Herbert Slatery III and five Tennessee abortion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":76433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[14315,19,10350,14313,12760,320,14,14314,690],"yoast_head":"\nTennessee ordered to pay legal fees of abortion facilities temporarily closed during pandemic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Planned Parenthood CEO called abortion "essential," adding, \u201cUsing COVID-19 as a pretext to prohibit abortion access served no public health benefit...."\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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