{"id":313004,"date":"2024-05-31T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=313004"},"modified":"2024-05-31T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:52:07","slug":"tennessee-governor-protect-children-abortion-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-governor-protect-children-abortion-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee governor signs bill to protect children from abortion trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tennessee governor Bill Lee signed a bill<\/a> Tuesday making it illegal for non-parental adults to transport minors to another state for abortion without the knowledge or permission of the minor’s parents.<\/p>\n

HB 1895<\/a> specifies that anyone who \u201cintentionally recruits, harbors, or transports\u201d a minor to another state for an abortion without parental consent will be subject to<\/a> a Class A misdemeanor, which comes with mandatory jail time of nearly a year. Currently, nearly all preborn children in the state are protected from abortion.<\/p>\n

Abortion proponents have spoken out with claims that the bill \u2014 which is in place to protect young women from abusers \u2014 will promote ‘fear’ and ‘violence.’<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the fear of state violence these laws are weaponizing isn\u2019t new, the fear of one another that this law will create is,\u201d said<\/a> Briana Perry, interim executive director of Healthy and Free Tennessee, a pro-abortion, nonprofit women\u2019s advocacy group. \u201cEvery time someone is criminalized and punished for abortion, more people are hesitant to seek help from their support systems. The terror this law will create is the intent of it.\u201d<\/p>\n