"I think the end game goal of most of the legislature trying to pass these bills here in Tennessee ... rights advocates are following several bills right now in the state legislature. One bill ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law SB1641, a bill that provides visitation rights for hospital patients. State lawmakers in favor of the legislation said it serves ...

Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee are pushing ... who had been admitted as a patient at a medical facility due to mental health issues over the last 5 years. The bill specifically has an exception ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has signed legislation that allows mental health counselors and therapists to refuse to treat patients based on religious objections or personal beliefs. Critics of the ...

A Republican bill allowing healthcare providers across Tennessee to deny patients some kinds of treatments, such as birth control, based on their religious, moral or ethical beliefs was signed ...

Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill on Thursday increasing criminal penalties for anyone distributing abortion medication through telehealth or mail, amid the U.S. Supreme Court's contemplation of ending ...

(WKRN) — In an effort to protect the constitutional rights of gun owners in Tennessee, lawmakers have filed a bill that would prohibit healthcare providers from asking patients if they own firearms.

Together with the Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, the ACLU of Tennessee, and five abortion providers in the state, we sued to challenge a law that requires doctors to lie to their ...

Wade, some state Democrat lawmakers announced Tuesday legislation to restore access to reproductive healthcare in Tennessee ... bills like the "Veterans' Bill of Rights," and one that would ...