Tennessee Amendment 1 (SJR 127)  Amendemnt 1 Cartouche with Text
To learn more about the official campaign organization in
support of Amendment 1, visit www.voteyestn.org.  Read the
Tennessee Baptist Convention Resolution on Amendment 1.  During
the last few decades of the 20th century, the Tennessee
Legislature passed a series of sensible laws regulating
abortion, including waiting period and informed consent laws,
creating an environment where innocent human life was protected
as much as legally possible.  That environment changed
dramatically in the year 2000 when the Tennessee state Supreme
Court “found” a broader right to abortion in the state
constitution than exists in the U.S. Constitution.  Plainly
stated, the effect of the Court’s holding…is to remove from the
people all power, except by constitutional amendment, to enact
reasonable regulations of abortion. -Justice Mickey BarkerAs a
consequence of this decision, our state’s informed consent law
was struck down as well as our law that required wome