6 hours ago On Thursday, the plaintiffs and now, respondents in a case challenging the constitutionality of a Tennessee abortion waiting-period law filed an opposition to the defendants’ April 5 application to the Supreme Court of the United States for a stay of lower court proceedings that fell in the plaintiffs’ favor.
Bristol Regional Women’s Center P.C., Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health, Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, and physician Kimberly Looney originally filed suit against Tennessee officials, arguing against a Tennessee law requiring that patients seeking abortions meet with their physicians in person, who will provide information about the procedure “and its alternatives,” and then wait for 48 hours before having the procedure.
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