Tennessee abortion

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked Tennessee from enforcing a law banning adults from helping minors get an abortion without parental permission. A judge ruled Friday that Tennessee cannot “make it a crime to communicate freely” about legal abortion options even in a state where abortion is banned at all stages of pregnancy except for a handful of situations.

More than 10,000 Tennesseans crossed state lines to obtain an abortion last year, according to estimates from an abortion rights group.

Soon-to-be medical school graduates are showing less interest in Tennessee’s OB-GYN residencies, according to new research by the Association of American of Medical Schools.

Several bills making their way through the Tennessee statehouse highlight the debate over law enforcement’s access to reproductive health care records.

It could soon be a crime to help Tennessee teenagers get an abortion. A bill passed out of the Senate and has one vote left in the House. Like many abortion policies, vague wording leaves a lot open to interpretation.

Tennessee’s abortion ban is facing another legal challenge, and it hinges on the law’s ambiguity around medical exceptions.

Advocates say it won’t help the state’s maternal mortality rate.

Tennessee State House members voted 83 to 11 to approve a measure adding narrow exemptions to the state’s abortion ban.

A bill to allow very specific exceptions to Tennessee’s abortion ban passed a key House committee Wednesday.

Tennessee Right to Life backs bill to make “affirmative defense” for physicians an exception.