Tennessee Makes Mailing Abortion Pills A Felony

The Associated Press reports:

Tennessee will soon strictly regulate the dispensing of abortion pills, including imposing harsh penalties on doctors who violate them, under legislation recently signed into law by Republican Gov. Bill Lee.

The measure, which Lee signed on Thursday, will go into effect Jan. 1, 2023. Once enacted, a medical clinician will be required to be physically present when abortion pills are administered to a patient even though federal regulations now allow mail delivery nationwide.

To date, 19 states have placed strict restrictions on accessing medication abortion. Under the Tennessee version, delivery of abortion pills by mail would be outlawed .

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Last month Lee signed a bill legalizing OTC horse paste.

RELATED: In 2019 Lee declared that God would stop school shootings and opioid overdoses if enough people would just pray for it to happen. Every year Lee signs a proclamation declaring a day in October to be an official day of fasting and prayer. His 2020 proclamation specified that prayers were to be about stopping the pandemic.

Tennessee is the latest red state to make it a felony to mail abortion pills.

The law makes it punishable by 20 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. https://t.co/xdMbhujz13

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