TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 15, 2020

U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman again ruled against the state of Tennessee yesterday over a controversial state law that requires a waiting period before an abortion, the Associated Press reports. Friedman overturned the law in October, declaring it unconstitutional. Attorney General Herbert Slatery filed a motion last month asking Friedman to leave the law in place while the state appeals to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that it was not a burden for a “large fraction” of those it affects. In his opinion denying the motion yesterday, Friedman referred back to his October ruling, which found that the statute “burdens the majority of abortion patients with significant, and often insurmountable, logistical and financial hurdles.”