Fri Feb 4, 2022 – 2:55 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – A federal appeals court reinstated late Wednesday a Tennessee law provision banning abortions performed due to race, gender, or a Down syndrome diagnosis.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by Tennessee’s attorney general to temporarily allow the law’s ban on certain discriminatory abortions, as abortion providers continue their lawsuit against the ban, according to the Associated Press. Abortionists who defy the ban could face felony charges.
LifeNews reported, “The appellate court indicated it will not move forward with a hearing on the law until the Supreme Court rules in the Dobbs case, which could be used to overturn Roe.”
The decision is the latest in a dynamic legal battle over a sweeping Tennessee pro-life bill signed into law in July 2020 by Gov. Bill Lee.
The law, as originally enacted, required doctors to perform an ultrasound before an abortion and forbade them from going through with the abortion if the machine picked up a heartbeat. The bill also banned abortions sought specifically because of the unborn baby’s race, sex, or prenatal diagnosis of a disability such as Down syndrome.
However, the law
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