Tennessee Attorney General Moves Swiftly to Restrict Women’s Rights
Herb Slatery wastes little time in announcing disdain for women
Almost immediately following the announcement of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case that overturns Roe v. Wade and eliminates a federal protection for a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, Tennessee Attorney General Herb Slatery noted his office would move quickly to enact Tennessee’s near-total ban on abortion.
A series of state laws have been passed in recent years that, taken together, make abortion illegal in the state. Those laws have been held at bay by Roe v. Wade.
Until today.
The Daily Memphian reports on Slatery’s swift movement to curtail the rights of women in Tennessee:
A near-total ban on abortions will take effect in Tennessee in 30 days under a 2019 trigger law, but a six-week “heartbeat bill” could take effect sooner and be in place until the trigger law supersedes it.
The trigger law bans nearly all abortions, with narrow exceptions for when the mother’s life is in danger.
“A person who performs or attempts to perform an abortion commits the offense of criminal abortion,” the law states. “Criminal abortion is a Class C felony.”
