A bipartisan effort has been made to add exemptions to Tennessee’s current abortion law. Lawmakers want to allow abortion protections for cases of rape, incest, and mental health. Republican state senator Ken Yager said he will sponsor a bill to “add clear legal exceptions for doctors who are currently at risk of prosecution for performing any abortion, even one to save the life of a pregnant patient.”
From The Epoch Times:
Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, a Chattanooga Democrat, introduced a bill with those exceptions and called for additional exceptions for the pregnant woman’s mental health. “This bill specifies that the offense of criminal abortion does not include an abortion that was necessary due to a medical emergency affecting the physical or mental health of the pregnant person or performed on a patient whose pregnancy was the result of rape or incest when the physician performing the abortion has verified the patient reported the offense to the appropriate law enforcement agency prior to the procedure,” text of his bill, filed Dec. 8, said.
