Tennessee is one of 13 states with a trigger law that would ban most abortions if Roe is struck down.
includes a 30-day window before the prohibition is implemented, but another measure could speed up that final outcome.a law that makes abortion illegal after embryonic or fetal cardiac activity is detected, which can happen as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. The vast majority of KCRH abortions occurred six weeks after a patient’s last menstrual period, according to
“We have to say, ‘We really hope we can provide the service for you, but if we get a decision tomorrow, you still have another 24 hours before you can return and then we will not be able to see you,’” Rovetti said. “So there’s a lot of upheaval and a lot of unknown and a lot of despair.” The Planned Parenthood facility’s sign was recently vandalized with white paint, to block out the clinic’s name. “We’re replacing the sign,” said Coffield. “It’s a message to the community that we’re coming back.”
In the meantime, Planned Parenthood is aiming by this fall to open a mobile clinic that will provide sexual and reproductive health services in the Knoxville area. But not everyone is sure that counseling patients to seek an abortion outside the state will be safe. Dr. Nikki Zite, a Knoxville OB-GYN, said some Tennessee doctors are uncertain about what they will be allowed to do and say to pregnant patients considering abortion, especially those with“We feel that the ban and a lot of the anti-abortion legislation is written in vague terms that make it hard to treat patients,” said Zite.
Once the trigger law goes into effect, Carwile said, “getting abortion care will be monumentally more expensive, since people will have to travel to another state.”
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