Parts of Abortion Law Struck Down
From Times Wire Reports
The Tennessee Supreme Court struck down portions of the state’s abortion law as overly burdensome to women, including a two-day waiting period and mandatory counseling. The other provisions held unconstitutional required that all second-trimester abortions take place in a hospital instead of a clinic and established medical emergency exceptions to the waiting period and counseling rule.
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