Three judges in Tennessee issued an injunction that temporarily protects doctors in the state from being disciplined for performing medically necessary abortions. The temporary injunction was issued Thursday in response to a lawsuit filed more than a year ago seeking to stop Tennessee’s abortion ban and require officials to clarify the “medical necessity exemption”

A panel of three Tennessee chancery court judges on Thursday ruled that doctors in the state cannot face penalties or have their licenses revoked for performing emergency abortions. The initial lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion ban was brought by several plaintiffs in 2023 who asked the court to clarify the situations as to where patients