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Jennifer Pepper, CEO of Memphis-based Choices, will discuss reproductive and sexual rights in the Americas during a webinar that will be simultaneously interpreted into English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Easily accessible for out-of-state patients, Planned Parenthood’s Carbondale health center is just four miles from the clinic Memphis-based Choices Center for Reproductive Care opened shortly after Tennessee banned abortion.
A year after Roe v. Wade was overturned, ending abortion access in the Mid-South, a Choices clinic in Illinois is performing 350 procedures per month. By October, leaders expect the number will be 600.Related story:
“One year ago, Tennessee faced an instant health emergency for pregnant people when we became a forced birth state,” said Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi.
Choices has opened a new walk-in clinic at its existing Poplar Avenue location, where services include birth control, pregnancy confirmation and STI testing.
Conservative Kristina Garner writes about her support of limited government, individual freedoms, the right to bear arms, a strong military, and the importance of state and local rights. But on abortion, she writes that decades of discrimination against women lead her and many other conservatives to disagree with the Republican Party’s position.
“Girls and women in Tennessee need their fathers and husbands and brothers and sons to step up and vote to end the government’s regulation of women’s bodies.”
Outside Planned Parenthood’s Memphis Health Center, supporters joined Francie Hunt on the first leg of her 538-mile trek across Tennessee to protest the state’s abortion ban.
Criminal defense lawyers say there are effectively no exceptions to the Human Life Protection Act of 2019.
“If you think abortion access going away does not affect you, you’re going to be mistaken, because this falls out into all areas of medicine,” said a Tennessee OB-GYN.
The Supreme Court issued its judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Tuesday, initiating the 30-day countdown on Tennessee’s abortion ban.
“Take a look at abortion policies around the world, and you will see an almost inverse relationship to white population and restrictions on abortion.”
“The executive order ... protects contraception and providers who are going to be needing to do their jobs to save the women that we’re going to see an influx of,” said one local OB-GYN. “I think that’s a good start.”
The White House said Biden will speak Friday morning “on protecting access to reproductive health care services.”
“I find it easy to understand why women see the overturning of Roe v. Wade as rolling back a broad range of rights for women that goes well beyond the matter of abortion.”
Some major employers are offering benefits to help employees access abortion services across state lines while others are determining whether they’ll need to make adjustments to their employees’ health care plans.
Executive director of A Step Ahead Foundation: Because an unplanned pregnancy creates challenges to personal stability and growth, free access “to birth control is now more important than ever.”
Guest column: “For anyone seeking the truth about the abortion decision, I encourage you to push through the noise and ignore the political rhetoric.”
“This decision was not made lightly,” said Ashley Cofield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi. “And it’s due to Tennessee’s legal landscape, which is extremely hostile to abortion access.” Related story:
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery wrote to the Sixth Circuit almost immediately after the high court’s decision on Friday, asking it to stay a district court’s injunction immediately and allow the law to take effect.
Between state abortion bans taking effect and the opening of a Choices clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, the closest facilities are in the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis.
Responses to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday, June 24, overturning the nearly 50-year old Roe v. Wade decision fall along party lines in Memphis and across Tennessee. Near-total abortion ban takes effect in 30 days, but a ‘heartbeat bill’ could come sooner The closest state to Memphis with abortion access? Illinois.Related Stories:
“Where is my right to safety and personal choice?”
“We’re not interested in making it harder to get contraceptives,” Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday after a previous, national news story was headlined that the governor “doesn’t rule out banning contraception if Roe falls.”
Abortion access would be severely restricted in Tennessee if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
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