Tennessee bill requiring women to bury, cremate remains after an abortion heads to governorâs desk
Bill requiring burial or cremation of aborted fetal remains passes TN House, Senate By Kelli Cook | April 21, 2021 at 9:32 PM CDT - Updated April 21 at 11:01 PM
âNormally the baby is abandoned in the abortion clinic and itâs thrown out in the trash or medical waste which is trash,â said Representative Tim Rudd of Rutherford County.
Rudd is the primary sponsor of the original bill in the House. It was then approved in the Senate Wednesday morning.
If the woman chooses a burial location other than the one provided by the facility then the patient has to pay the burial bill.
Tennessee bill requiring women to bury, cremate remains after an abortion heads to governorâs desk Tennessee flag (Source: WVLT) By Kelli Cook | April 21, 2021 at 9:32 PM CDT - Updated April 21 at 11:01 PM
âNormally the baby is abandoned in the abortion clinic and itâs thrown out in the trash or medical waste which is trash,â said Representative Tim Rudd of Rutherford County.
Rudd is the primary sponsor of the original bill in the House. It was then approved in the Senate Wednesday morning.
If the woman chooses a burial location other than the one provided by the facility then the patient has to pay the burial bill.
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A bill that left the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday seeks to reduce the influence a Nashville court plays in hearing constitutional challenges after it issued an election ruling last year.
In this screenshot of Tennessee’s state Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Tuesday, state Senator Mike Bell discusses his proposal to create a statewide chancery court to hear lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the state’s statutes. (Image via Courthouse News).
(CN) Tennessee statute directs the Davidson County Chancery Court in downtown Nashville to hear lawsuits challenging state law. But after a judge issued a ruling on voting by mail during the pandemic last year, some of the state’s Republican lawmakers want the venue hearing constitutional challenges to change.
A persistent issue in Tennessee government is that of whether state law should trump the preferences of local jurisdictions. Two tests of the proposition are.