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Smith County
Tennessee
Right To Life
As a non-profit, charitable organization, Smith County Right to Life is working to advocate respect for human life through
public education, protective public policy and the development of an active pro-life movement in our community.
Please join with us to protect the most valuable thing in the world, a human life.
We support life from conception to natural death!
Tennessee
Right to Life and pro-life Tennesseans have waited nearly 50 years
for August 25, 2022, the date on which Tennessee law will
protect Tennessee’s most vulnerable citizens – unborn children. The
Human Life Protection Act will go into effect and thousands of lives
could be saved.
“On June 24, the Supreme Court made its
historic decision confirming what pro-life leaders have known since
1973, that abortion is not a right found in the Constitution. The
intentional killing of unborn children is not a Constitutional
right. Therefore, abortion regulation was returned to the states,
and pro-life Tennessee was in position ready to accept the
responsibility of protecting and defending our most vulnerable
citizens. August 25 is another historic day for Tennessee. It is a
day innocent lives will be protected,” said Stacy Dunn, president of
Tennessee Right to Life.
“The right to life is the most
fundamental right of any human being. To protect that right for our
unborn children is a responsibility that we take seriously.
Tennesseans should be proud of what our state has accomplished for
our most vulnerable citizens,” said Dunn.
Tennessee Right to
Life is grateful for the legislators who supported the Human Life
Protection Act, especially sponsors Representative Susan Lynn and
Senator Dolores Gresham.
“The voters of Tennessee have worked
to elect pro-life super majorities that reflect their fundamental
value for life in the House and the Senate, and they are now seeing
the fruits of their labors. For legislators, our hope in passing
the Human Life Protection Act, by an overwhelming majority, was for
a state free from the violence and exploitation of the abortion
industry. Our hope is now a reality,” said former State Senator and
bill sponsor Dolores Gresham.
“The end of abortion-on-demand
in our state is a badge of honor for Tennessee. We are proud of the
fact that we will no longer tolerate those who profit from the
destruction of children and the exploitation of their mothers. No
longer will the abortionist have free rein in our state,” added
State Representative and bill sponsor Susan Lynn.
The Human
Life Protection Act provides for an affirmative defense when a
physician has determined, in his or her good faith medical
judgement, based upon facts known at the time that the abortion was
necessary to prevent the death of the mother or to prevent serious
risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily
function of the mother.
Will Brewer, Legislative Liaison for Tennessee Right to Life,
pointed out, “A similar affirmative defense has existed in various
pro-life laws in Ohio since 2011. Since then, 70 abortions have been
performed to save the life of the mother and no doctor has been
prosecuted.”
“Nothing in this law prohibits the treatment of
ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages. Further, this law explicitly
states that women seeking abortions will not be prosecuted,”
explained Brewer.
“Tennessee Right to Life will continue to
work with legislators to protect unborn children. We will work with
the nearly 200 help centers who offer assistance to women and their
families, and we will continue to educate the citizens of our state
about the precious gift of life in all its ages, stages and
conditions. Our goal is not only to make abortion illegal but to
make it unthinkable,” Dunn concluded.
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