The Volunteer State wants an en banc appeals court to reinstate a law that requires a woman to wait 48 hours before she can get an abortion, arguing similar restrictions in other states have been upheld as constitutional.
Demonstrators on both sides of the abortion issue gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington during the March for Life in January 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
CINCINNATI (CN) In arguments before the entire Sixth Circuit on Wednesday, Tennessee cited U.S. Supreme Court precedent and claimed its mandatory waiting period for abortions should not have been struck down by a federal judge.
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6th Circuit Court Of Appeals Grants Stay In Tennessee Case On 48-Hour Waiting Period For Abortions Friday, April 23, 2021
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the state of Tennessee’s motion for a stay pending appeal in
Bristol Regional Women’s Center v. Slatery. The order comes after the entire Sixth Circuit reconsidered an earlier ruling from a three-judge panel of the Court.
“We are pleased that the full Sixth Circuit has recognized that Tennessee’s law, requiring a 48-hour waiting period for abortions, is likely constitutional and can be enforced while the appeal proceeds,” said state Attorney General Herbert H.
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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