Clinics in Virginia, where abortion is legal, say they are moving closer to the state border with Tennessee, where abortion will soon become illegal.
. Meanwhile, Virginia still allows most abortions through the second trimester.
“It’s like a game of dominoes. It’s just a huge swath of states not offering the service any longer,” Derzis said. “So those women have to go north or west.”— in late July and said she’s already had a few patients. Derzis said the Tennessee and Virginia clinics are separate, distinct operations.Deborah Jo Adams, who works at Bristol Regional Women’s Center, has raised more than $100,000 for the new clinic through.
Haven Hensley stands outside the Bristol Regional Women’s Center, an OB-GYN practice in Bristol, Tennessee, that offers abortions. A Tennessee state law that bans the procedure in most cases is set to take effect in late August.“All of that is dependent upon what might happen with laws over time in Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia,” said Herrell, the incoming chair of the Tennessee chapter of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
“Honk twice for choice,” read one of the signs, which faced oncoming vehicles. Pink Defenders cheered when drivers obliged.have led to civil lawsuits Farnum, the Virginia mayor, said he received dozens of calls and emails — “a lot for a city this size” — from residents concerned about the clinic. But he told them he can’t do much to stop it. “It’s really more of a state decision. And currently, right now, the state law is that it is legal to operate that in the state,” Farnum said. “Our hands are sort of tied. We don’t really have anything to vote on.
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