NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee’s GOP-dominant Statehouse on Tuesday took a first step toward loosening one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, advancing a narrow exemption bill over threats from anti-abortion advocates that doing so would come with political retribution.
Under Tennessee's current abortion trigger law, there are no exceptions to allow for the procedure to take place. But a bill, sponsored by Republicans, could potentially change that.
Tennessee’s GOP-dominant Statehouse on Tuesday took a first step toward loosening one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, advancing a narrow exemption bill over threats from anti-abortion advocates that doing so would come with political retribution.
Tennesseans of a certain age first may have heard about term limits during the 1994 congressional campaign, when it was a part of the "Contract With America" offered by Republicans who were anxious to and did become the majority party in the United State House of Representatives.