TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 27, 2019

A multi-year legal challenge to Tennessee’s 48-hour waiting period for abortions now rests with a federal court, but Senior Judge Bernard Friedman, a Michigan judge appointed to preside over the case, has no set timetable for issuing his ruling, the Tennessean reports. The 2015 law requires women seeking an abortion to wait 48 hours between receiving in-person counseling from a doctor and returning to a clinic for an abortion. Both sides submitted final written conclusions late last month.