Tennessee Abortion Helpers Seek End to Trafficking Ban Suit

Two women who help pregnant Tennessee teenagers get abortions in states where the procedure is still legal are asking a federal court to permanently halt enforcement of the state’s “trafficking” ban.

Rachel Welty and Aftyn Behn asked the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on Tuesday to find that the state law’s “recruitment” prong is an “unconstitutionally vague content- and viewpoint-based criminal speech restriction” and declare it unenforceable. The two undoubtedly would be targets of state prosecutions under the provision if it’s allowed to continue, they said.

Tennessee is the second state, after Idaho, to pass a ...