It was one of the most bold — and well-received — claims since Roe v. Wade: Abortions in a state had dropped to zero.

But was it true? That’s, at least, what one of the biggest explicitly pro-life outlets said in an article published Monday. The article was published by LifeNews and was apparently written by someone with Tennessee Right to Life, a group that was behind the state’s so-called “trigger law.”

“Trigger laws” existed to ban abortion if and when the Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade and were passed before the decision was indeed overturned. According to the Tennessee Lookout, the decades-old organization was behind the “sustained lobbying” that led to the Human Life Protection Act of 2019, which would trigger an abortion ban in the Volunteer State if the Supreme Court allowed it.

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