A hearing in a Tennessee state court in Nashville was held April 4 in Phillips, et al., v. State of Tennessee, et al. (Formerly Blackmon v. State of Tennessee), the Center for Reproductive Rights’ case brought on behalf of seven women denied abortion care and two physicians. The case challenges the medical necessity exception to Tennessee’s total abortion ban.

At the hearing, the Center’s attorneys urged the Court to block the abortion ban as it applies to dangerous pregnancy complications and lethal fetal conditions.

Read and Watch Media Highlights:

• “Court hears arguments to throw out Tennessee abortion lawsuit, block ban in part,” ABC News, 04.04.24
• “Tennessee court weighs challenge to abortion ban’s narrow medical exception,” NBC News, 04.04.24
• “Tennessee court hears case on medical exception rules for abortions,” NBC News, 04.04.24
• “Seven women sue Tennessee after being denied medical exemption under state’s abortion ban,” NBC News, 04.04.24
• “Tennessee court to weigh throwing out abortion ban challenge, blocking portions of the law,” AP News, 04.04.24
• “Tennessee court weighs blocking abortion ban during pregnancy complications,” Reuters, 04.04.24
• “Tennessee case: How narrow can a medical exception be in a state’s abortion ban?” NPR, 04.04.24
• “‘Between the woman and her doctor’: Tennessee plaintiff speaks out on harm of state’s abortion ban,” MSNBC, 04.04.24
• “Her abortion experience was ‘bizarre and painful’. Now she’s suing Tennessee,” The Guardian, 04.04.24
• “Woman denied abortion for unviable birth hits out at ‘appalling and cruel’ attitude of Tennessee lawmakers,” The Independent, 04.05.24
• “Tennessee women fight to block state’s abortion ban after being denied treatment for dangerous pregnancies,” The Independent, 04.04.24
• “Tennessee Court to Hear Case Filed By Women Denied Abortions in Dire Situations,” Tennessee Tribune, 04.04.24
• “Court hears challenge to Tennessee abortion ban for those with health risks,” The Tennessean, 04.04.24
• “Three judge panel hears arguments over ‘unconstitutionally vague’ exceptions to abortion ban,” Tennessee Lookout, 04.05.24
• “Tennessee Court Deliberate Over Possibility of Preventing Abortion Ban in Cases of Pregnancy Complications,” Parent Herald, 04.05.24
• “Three-judge panel hears arguments in TN abortion exceptions lawsuit,” WKRN, 04.04.24

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• Phillips, et al., v. State of Tennessee, et al. (Formerly Blackmon v. State of Tennessee)