NASHVILLE – More than two years after Tennessee enacted one of the country’s strictest abortion bans, lawmakers are likely to save, or further restrict and punish access to reproductive care. We are prepared to take up one competing bill that can be done.

Measures introduced so far include laws proposed by Republican lawmakers that will allow for drug manufacturers, sellers and distributors to families of women and girls who have used a drug that induces abortion. Gives the right to file a $5 million lawsuit.

The bill by Democrats is codified into a law that neither contraceptives nor in vitro fertilization meets Tennessee’s definition of abortion and is protected from a state ban.

Another Chattanooga Democrat bill seeks to protect the maternal physical and mental health by inserting an explicit exception to Tennessee’s abortion ban on victims of sexual assault and incest. And the Nashville Democrats’ largely symbolic bill is trying to fully restore abortion rights.

In a year when other controversial policy issues appear on the central stage, Gov. Bill Lee promoted school vouchers, disaster aid to northeast Tennessee, and immigration in line with President Donald Trump’s goals. Policy – The bill emphasizes the reverberation of the Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark abortion decision that left it in the state rather than the federal government to determine abortion rights.

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“Since Dobbs, people have really wanted clarity,” said Rep. Harold Love, a Nashville Democrat. “These (the bills) won’t rise to the level of school vouchers, but I hope that my colleagues will be involved in the support.”

Bill seeks protection for IVF, birth control

Love joined Memphis Sen. Raumesh Akbari, a Democrat from Memphis, to revive the bill (SB3/HB14) Since last year, the disposition of embryos caused by fertility treatment is not included in the state’s definition of “criminal abortion,” a Class C felony in Tennessee.

Akbari introduced the bill last year in response to a 2024 decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that found embryos created through IVFs were considered children under the state’s illegal death laws. I stated.

Before the Alabama Court decision, the Tennessee Attorney General had already issued an opinion that he had concluded that the practice of disposing embryos created by the IVF does not constitute abortion.

However, Akbari is concerned that shortly after Alabama’s decision, Tennessee GOP lawmakers could enact laws that would ban IVFs and restrict or prohibit future forms of birth control. He said he has begun receiving calls and messages from him.

This year’s bill has been made clear to meet Republican concerns and explicitly limits IVF protection to “unimprinted embryos.”

GOP is a new goal with the aim of abortion of medication

Bills by Senator Gino Bruso and Senator Joey Hensley — Republicans from Brentwood and Hohenwald respectively — are targeting abortions.

It has been illegal to prescribe abortions, tablets that could induce abortions in the early stages of pregnancy, in Tennessee since the DOBBS decision. Since 2022 it has been illegal to distribute medicines “through courier, delivery or postal services.”

(A bill entitled “Fetal Protection Act 2025”)SB194/HB26), adds additional rights to file a lawsuit against “manufacturer, distributor, seller or reseller of abortion inducer.”

These rights are extended to families of women and girls who have ended their pregnancy using abortion drugs, and will file a civil suit for $5 million in damages up to five years after the end of the family’s pregnancy. You can do it.

Bulso, the bill’s chief sponsor, did not respond to requests for comment on the bill left in his office and the Republican House Caucus.

Ashley Coffield, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood in Tennessee and Northern Mississippi, said the bill still makes its manufacturer to supply medicines to Tennessee Hospitals for legal use and for non-abortion services. He said it will have a calm effect on the

The appeals court rules for the quest for family planning in Tennessee are from dollars except abortion counseling.

Misoprostol, one component of abortion-inducing drug regimen, is used to treat miscarriages and to induce and treat postpartum bleeding. .

“Not including these exceptions is a failure of the bill,” Coffield said, and whether manufacturers, distributors and package delivery services such as UPS and FedEx have been shipped to the public for legal or illegal use. He said he is not in a position to distinguish between the two. .

“The manufacturer of misoprostol may refuse to ship it at all,” she said.

Coffield also criticized the calm effect of the bill’s “other”; He criticized the family’s ability to file lawsuits on her behalf as a result of her pregnancy. I’m having an abortion. ”

So far, two other reproductive rights bills have also been introduced ahead of the legislative deadline for the introduction of new bills.

HB179 Rep. Yusuf Haiquam, a Chattanooga Democrat, is trying to protect her mother’s lives and add a new exception to Tennessee’s abortion ban on victims of sexual assault.

Nashville Democrat Aftin Bain and Memphis Democrat London Lamar have mostly introduced iconic bills (SB187/HB27) Restore Tennessee’s right to abortion.