Beshear denounces ‘extremism’ in abortion policy at Tenn. reproductive health event
Gov. Andy Beshear reiterated a call for Kentucky and Tennessee to add rape and fatal fetal anomaly exceptions to both state’s near-total abortion bans, saying “extremism pushes everybody off.” “Imagine somebody violated by a person in their family, somebody who is supposed to keep them safe,” Beshear said to a crowd at the Tennessee Justice Center in Nashville Friday evening.
There is no fault with the victim, he said, “there is only a crime committed, and our state legislatures are trying to say they shouldn’t have basic options.” The second-term Democratic governor, alongside abortion rights advocate Hadley Duvall, were the keynote speakers at fundraiser for the restoration of reproductive health care access in Tennessee hosted by the Tennessee Freedom Circle, a group formed after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Among the audience of roughly 100 donors and supporters were a handful of the Volunteer State’s Democratic lawmakers.
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