Judges Reverse Federal Court: 48-Hour Wait Before Abortion Legal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The abortion industry argued that Tennessee's policy harms "low-income and communities of color" even as pro-life advocates point out that while black Americans account for about 14 percent of the child-bearing population in the United States, 36 percent of abortions are black babies.
52% : "The forced delay requirement has nothing to do with patient health," Ashley Coffield, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, said in the News Channel 5 report.
50% : A law regulating abortion is facially valid if it meets two requirements: (1) the law is "reasonably related to a legitimate state interest," and (2) the law does not place a "substantial obstacle" in the path of a large fraction of women "seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus."
49% : Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights said they will continue to fight the waiting period.
45% : Although the Supreme Court upheld a similar 24-hour waiting period in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the district court said that Tennessee's waiting period violates a woman's right to have an abortion.
43% : " That is why burdens on abortion providers are relevant only if they unduly burden women's access to abortion.
43% : And for the reasons discussed elsewhere in this opinion, the waiting period does not unduly burden abortion more broadly.
42% : The Supreme Court analyzed these findings, but still held that Pennsylvania's waiting period did not unduly burden access to abortion.
42% : "Abortion is health care and we at Planned Parenthood will continue to fight for our right to control our own bodies because our patients deserve nothing less," the abortion provider said in the News Channel 5 report.
39% : The law is supported by a rational basis, and it is not a substantial obstacle to abortion for a large fraction of women seeking previability abortions in Tennessee.
39% : The law is supported by a rational basis, and it is not a substantial obstacle to abortion for a large fraction of women seeking previability abortions in Tennessee.
34% : So this rationale offers no independent basis for finding that Tennessee's law poses a substantial obstacle to abortion.

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