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About abortions, including the names of the doctors who performed the procedures and specific demographics about the women who get them, including their age, race, education, and number of children. two tennessee representatives join me now. democrat gary odom and republican joey hensley. thank you for being with us. i appreciate it. representative odom, let me start with you. what is your concern about this? >> chris, i believe this is an extremely dangerous piece of legislation for a number of reasons. as you said, it would require the tennessee department of public health to publish the nam...

Pregnancies. some of our small counties could help identify. >> the tennessee right to life says it's fair for folks on both sides to see how prevalent abortion is in our counties and in our communities. can't you do that without the names of doctors and specific information about women who are having the procedure? what's the point? >> chris, this has two parts to the bill. number one, it would require doctors to have hospital privileges, which is for the safety of these women, and this is already information that the department of health collects, and unlike what my -- what representative od...

>> so that we have information about abortions. now abortion clinics are completely unregulated. they don't meet any of the requirements of any surgery centers in tennessee, so they're not inspected by the health department. none of these things apply to abortion clinics that apply to other surgery centers, so that's what this bill -- part of it does. this information is already collected by the health department. >> representative odom, if i listen to him, it makes it sound like he is trying to actually protect the health of women by making sure that these clinics are regulated, but you are s...