Without Apology by Jenny Brown

Author:Jenny Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books

The ads implied that it would be OK to ban abortion as long as exceptions were maintained for women who were raped or had a health crisis, a dying fetus, or cancer. Abortion is still legal on demand in Tennessee, yet somehow we’ve been transported back to 1969, debating under which horrible special circumstances women would be allowed to get an abortion procedure.

Or worse, the ads avoided mentioning that the vote was about abortion at all. In an ad mysterious to anyone not steeped in the issue, a Vanderbilt law professor, Tracey George, explains:

The Tennessee constitution’s special. We have some of the strongest privacy protections in the country. Privacy is something we take very seriously. [Text on screen: “Vote No on Amendment 1 because it’s deeply flawed.”] Amendment 1 would strip away some basic privacy rights and force governmental interference into private medical decisions. And 1 opens the door for the legislature to take away additional rights, including marriage and childrearing rights. Amendment 1 is government interference with far-reaching consequences on thousands of laws. It is deeply flawed. We should all vote no. [“Vote no on 1: Stop government interference.”]”42

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