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Lawyer’s mission: Translate Tenn.’s bewildering abortion ban
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Chloe Akers considers herself a grizzled prison defense attorney. Until a couple months in the past, she didn’t devote significantly time pondering about abortion — for all her 39 several years, abortion was not a criminal offense, so she’d by no means imagined acquiring to defend another person accused of accomplishing 1. That improved in June, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Akers sat down in her law office and pulled up Tennessee’s new prison abortion statute. She didn’t study it as a result of a political lens it doesn’t issue whether she likes a legislation — there are a whole lot of them she…


