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Tennessee General Assembly
"Resistance and subversion to the status quo ought to make some people uncomfortable," state Rep. Justin J. Pearson said about the criticism.
The measure would allow a man who gets a woman pregnant to request an injunction barring her from obtaining an abortion.
We are using a bazooka to go after a housefly here, a Democratic lawmaker said after the Republican-led assembly approved the measure.
There was no debate or explanation as to why the bill was withdrawn from the state's GOP-dominant Senate.