Posted on 05/06/2022 7:25:52 PM PDT by Morgana
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee will soon strictly regulate the dispensing of abortion pills, including imposing harsh penalties on doctors who violate them, under legislation recently signed into law by Republican Gov. Bill Lee.
The measure, which Lee signed on Thursday, will go into effect Jan. 1, 2023. Once enacted, a medical clinician will be required to be physically present when abortion pills are administered to a patient even though federal regulations now allow mail delivery nationwide.
The issue has become even more important as the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision as suggested through a recently leaked draft opinion. Notably, Tennessee is among the 13 states with a so-called trigger law that would make abortion illegal should Roe be overturned.
To date, 19 states have placed strict restrictions on accessing medication abortion. Under the Tennessee version, delivery of abortion pills by mail would be outlawed and anyone who wanted to use abortion pills would be required to visit a doctor in advance and then return to pick up the pills.
The drugs may be dispensed only by qualified physicians — which would include barring pharmacists from doing so. Violators would face a Class E felony and up to a $50,000 fine.
However, according to abortion law experts, it’s an unsettled question whether states can restrict access to abortion pills in the wake of the the Food and Drug Administration's decision earlier this year to no longer require women to pick up the abortion medication in person. The move allowed millions of American women to get a prescription via an online consultation and receive the pills through the mail.
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Thank you, Jesus.
More good news.
Praise Almighty God! Great going, Tennessee.
Wish it went in to effect today; always wonder why laws don’t start for months. Maybe someone here can explain why. But thank God for this victory!
If California can restrict ammo being shipped into CA unless you have an FFL, I fail to see why A state cannot restrict access to pills.
Also See all the states with legalized pot, while its still a fed felony
But you see, bullets are made to hurt people. Whereas the abortion pill........
/sarc? So sad...
So many of the comments after the video from the self-idolizing, Moloch-worshiping pro-death monsters are disgusting and break my heart.
I remember seeing lots of “LAST CHANCE GASOLINE for 50 miles!” signs in the west.
Wonder if Arizona and Nevada have “LAST CHANCE FOR AMMO AND HI-CAP MAGAZINES!” on roads leading into California.
I also like this part.
“Tennessee is among the 13 states with a so-called trigger law that would make abortion illegal should Roe be overturned.”
Sad, but unsurprising.
We can barely put a dent in cocaine, meth and fentanyl smuggling in this country now.
Do you think border states like Washington and California are even going to make an effort to stop Chinese and Mexican made Mifeprex RU-486 into the states to be distributed by the same dealers who peddle other illegal drugs? When it aligns with their beliefs politically like it does?
I don’t, that sh*t will be available on every street corner in every urban center in every state that there will be a market for it, happily supplied with a wink and a nod by sympathetic supporters from all over.
Meanwhile, the federally registered and approved people giving CoupFlu vaxxes don’t have to know you or jack **** about what they’re sticking you with...
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