Docket Review: Challenging the Inadequacy of the “Medical Necessity Exception” Under Tennessee's Criminal Abortion Ban

Seven patients and two doctors sued the state because they were denied medically necessary abortions (or prevented from providing it) due to TN's criminal abortion ban

Many of you may already be familiar with at least one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s abortion ban and its wholly inadequate “Medical Necessity Exception”: Allie Phillips of Clarksville, who also shared her abortion story while running as a candidate for House District 75. Phillips’ doctors diagnosed multiple problems during her…