A Tennessee lawmaker helped pass a strict abortion law. He’s now trying to loosen it ( www.wpr.org )
Five years ago, when state Sen. Richard Briggs co-sponsored legislation that would codify some of the country’s most austere abortion restrictions in Tennessee – it seemed to him like little more than political theater....
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