{"id":93180,"date":"2016-04-22T13:26:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T17:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=93180"},"modified":"2016-04-22T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T17:26:32","slug":"judge-upholds-pro-life-tennessee-amendment-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/judge-upholds-pro-life-tennessee-amendment-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge upholds pro-life Tennessee Amendment 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On Thursday, Williamson County Circuit Court Judge Michael Binkley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/04\/21\/judge-upholds-vote-count-tennessee-abortion-ballot-measure\/83358638\/\">rejected<\/a> pro-abortion advocates&#8217; efforts to invalidate Tennessee&#8217;s Amendment 1, which clarifies that the state Constitution contains no right to abortion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Abortion advocates had challenged the law, which voters enacted in 2014, <a href=\"\/news\/pro-abortion-activists-sue-to-invalidate-tennessees-pro-life-amendment-1\/\">on an interpretation<\/a> of the state requirements for constitutional amendments that claims the number of \u201cyes\u201d votes must be equal to or greater than the number of people voting for governor plus one, and therefore only voters who voted in the gubernatorial race should have their votes on the amendment counted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liveaction.org\/petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NewDefundAd3.jpg\" alt=\"NewDefundAd3\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NewDefundAd3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/NewDefundAd3-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The state countered by arguing that Amendment 1 was ratified based on the exact same interpretation and criteria that Tennessee used for constitutional amendments over the past hundred years. 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