The subpoenas were issued as part of a 2023 lawsuit brought by several Tennessee women and doctors who are seeking to broaden the exceptions in the state’s abortion ban. Although Tennessee – like every other state with an abortion ban – technically permits abortions in medical emergencies, these women say they were denied medically necessary abortions. Doctors across the country have said that the exceptions embedded in abortion bans are worded so vaguely that they are incompatible with medical standards, forcing doctors to delay or deny care until a patient becomes sick enough to legally qualify for treatment.
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