Tennessean pro-lifers rally in support of Amendment 1. Fr. Mark Hodges
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, January 12, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A hard-fought pro-life battle spanning sixteen-years has resulted in a federal appeals court handing pro-life advocates a victory by upholding an amendment to Tennessee’s state Constitution allowing limitations on abortion.
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected a pro-abortion attempt to overturn the 2014 pro-life statewide ballot results passing Amendment 1, which reads:
Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion. The people retain the right through their elected state representatives or state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including, but not limited to, circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother.
The Tennessean reports that the amendment “was the most hotly contested and most expensive Tennessee ballot measure in recent years – one that brought an unprecedented level of voter organizing, phone banking and attention from national groups on both sides of the abortion issue.”
The Circuit Court Justices overruled District Court Judge Kevin Sharp’s 2016 order for
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