The Tennessee Attorney General’s office has succeeded in indefinitely delaying a legal challenge to the state’s widespread abortion ban from going to trial. A two-week non-jury trial was supposed to start Monday in Davidson County Chancery Court, the culmination of a legal challenge that began in September 2023. The state filed a TRAP 3 appeal with the Tennessee Court of Appeals; in response the plaintiffs filed an emergency motion, which was denied. As such, Chancery Court removed the trial from the docket. “The Tennessee attorney general is intent on silencing the women in our case and burying their stories,” said Linda Goldstein of the Center for Reproductive Rights. “I had to leave my own state to end a pregnancy that was never going to make it,” said Allie Phillips, lead plaintiff.\n\n— Nashville Banner, April 24, 2026