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CNN fact checks viral tweet about new abortion law
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10:24Now PlayingA former congressional candidate tweeted an inaccurate claim about Tennessee banning the "morning-after pill." CNN's Daniel Dale fact-checks the claim, explains what the new law really says, and how it impacts residents of the state.
Fact check: TN didn't ban Plan B morning-after pill
By Daniel Dale, CNN
Washington (CNN)A former Democratic congressional candidate went viral on Twitter over the weekend with a false claim that Tennessee has banned Plan B, a pregnancy-preventing emergency contraceptive known as a "morning-after pill."
Pam Keith's inaccurate tweet came five days after Politico revealed a February draft opinion in which a Supreme Court majority appeared poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision of 1973. The news has raised questions about both the state-by-state future of abortion rights and whether some conservative states might try to restrict some forms of contraception.
"Tennessee just banned Plan B and made it a crime punishable by a $50,000 fine to order it," Keith, a lawyer who ran unsuccessfully in Florida for the US Senate in 2016 and the House of Representatives in 2018 and 2020, tweeted on Saturday.
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