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The trial in our case against the State of Tennessee's abortion ban exceptions has been halted indefinitely by a new Tennessee law. The longer our case is delayed, the more women and pregnant people will be harmed by this dangerous ban.

This is not about the strength of the state's legal arguments. It is about evasion. It is about rewriting the rules midstream to avoid accountability and prevent a public reckoning with the human cost of this ban.

As my colleague Linda Goldstein told The Guardian , "The state wants to convince the people of Tennessee that the abortion ban is working and that women who need medically necessary abortion care are getting it. And what women in our case prove, and what the state is very afraid of coming to light, is that it's not working."

That's the crux of it. Because of vague and narrow medical exceptions to abortion bans, some women are being denied care, are getting infected, and are going septic. This is all because health care is criminalized, and doctors are terrified to provide standard medical treatment that they used to provide to their patients before the ban went into effect.

This isn't about the merits; it's about access to justice. When rules change midstream to stop a case from being heard, the stakes go far beyond Tennessee. We'll keep you updated as this case moves forward.

Marc Hearron
Senior Counsel

P.S. Here's what else we're reading this week:

* Oklahoma's new abortion bill is unnecessary and dangerous | Opinion [[link removed]] - Janet Koven Levit, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Tulsa, Guest Columnist for The Oklahoman

* A Tennessee woman needed an abortion to save her life. She then joined a lawsuit against the state's ban [[link removed]] - Melody Schreiber, The Guardian

* Court issues temporary order allowing access to abortion pill by mail [[link removed]] - Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog

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