“Tennessee just banned Plan B and made it a crime punishable by a $50,000 fine to order it.”
Pam Keith
CEO at the Center for Employment Justice and 2020 Democratic nominee for Florida’s 18th Congressional District. Claim dated 8 May 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Tennessee legislation that takes effect in January 2023 imposes restrictions on the dispensing of abortion-inducing pills. It doesn’t address or ban emergency contraceptives like Plan B.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Pam Keith (CEO at the Center for Employment Justice and 2020 Democratic nominee for Florida’s 18th Congressional District) made this claim around 8 May 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 May 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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- THIP Media: False“Tennessee ban Plan B and made its ordering criminally punishable”