{"id":3937,"date":"2020-06-24T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2020-07-06T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:42:39","slug":"tennessee-passes-bill-banning-abortion-after-six-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/2020\/06\/tennessee-passes-bill-banning-abortion-after-six-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Passes Bill Banning Abortion After Six Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee lawmakers, on Friday, passed one of the nation&#8217;s strictest abortion restrictions, banning the procedure once a fetal heartbeat is detected at about six weeks, which often occurs before a woman even realizes she is pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;heartbeat&#8221; bill follows a wave of similarly stringent anti-abortion measures passed by Republican-majority legislatures in an effort to push the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that guarantees women&#8217;s constitutional right to abortion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eu.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/06\/19\/tennessee-six-week-abortion-ban-fetal-heartbeat-down-syndrome\/3214947001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee lawmakers, on Friday, passed one of the nation&#8217;s strictest abortion restrictions, banning the procedure once a fetal heartbeat is detected at about six weeks, which often occurs before a woman even realizes she is pregnant. The &#8220;heartbeat&#8221; bill follows a wave of similarly stringent anti-abortion measures passed by Republican-majority legislatures in an effort to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abortion-en"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalnetworkforvalues.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}