Tennessee Abortion Waiting Period Law Blocked During Appeal

A Tennessee law that requires women to wait 48 hours between receiving information about the risks of abortion and undergoing procedures to end their pregnancies remains blocked while the state appeals a decision that vacated it, the Sixth Circuit said.

Abortion providers who challenged the law are likely to succeed in showing it places a substantial obstacle in the path of a large fraction of women seeking to exercise their constitutional right to have an abortion before viability, whether measured under the undue burden test or a test balancing its benefits against its burdens, the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...