TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Dec 28, 2015

Williamson County Chancery Court Judge Michael Binkley announced that he will make a “speedy” decision about whether votes for and against abortion measure Amendment 1 in November 2014 were counted correctly, The Tennessean reports. A federal lawsuit filed by eight voters after the election is also challenging the method state election officials used to count the measure’s votes. The amendment, approved by 53 percent of the vote, adds these words to Tennessee’s constitution: "Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion."