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SouthCapital · NashvillePop · 6,910,840In the CDC countTotal ban in effect
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Civic facts

The basics

Capital
Nashville
Largest city
Nashville
Population (2020)
6,910,840
Area
42,144 sq mi
Admitted
1796
Region
South
U.S. House seats
9
Who represents it

Officials & delegation

Governor
Bill Lee
Republican
U.S. Senator
Marsha Blackburn
Republican
U.S. Senator
Bill Hagerty
Republican
U.S. House
9 seats
2020 apportionment
Reporting & the law

What Tennessee reports

Federal participation
Submits data to CDCDid the jurisdiction submit abortion data to the CDC for the most recent surveillance year?
yes
Reporting to CDC is voluntary; the non-reporting set can change year to year.
◐ secondary
State mandate
State reporting mandateDoes state law require providers to report abortions to the state?
full
◐ secondary
Statute citationExact code section creating the reporting requirement.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-15-203
The physician keeps records and reports each abortion (and disposition of fetal tissue) to the Commissioner of Health, who reports quarterly totals to state officials.
✓ primary code
Reporting frequencyHow often providers must file (monthly, quarterly, annually).
per_procedure
◐ secondary
Data granularityIndividual-level records (no names) vs aggregate statistics.
individual
Individual-level records exclude patient names.
◐ secondary
What is collected
Patient demographicsAge, race, ethnicity, marital status, prior births.
yes
◐ secondary
Gestational durationGestational age at time of abortion.
yes
◐ secondary
Method / typeProcedural vs medication abortion and specific method.
yes
◐ secondary
Patient residenceState/county of residence -- needed to measure interstate travel.
yes
◐ secondary
Facility / clinician identityNames of facility and provider. Central to the privacy debate.
yes
◐ secondary
Reason for abortionPatient's stated reason for seeking care.
no
◐ secondary
Fetal viabilityWhether the fetus was viable.
no
◐ secondary
Counseling complianceWhether counseling requirements were met.
no
◐ secondary
Parental involvement complianceWhether parental consent/notice requirements were met.
no
◐ secondary
Born-alive reportingRequires reporting on infants born alive / surviving attempted abortion.
no
◐ secondary
Health outcomes
Complications / adverse eventsWhether the state requires reporting of physical complications. This is the field that speaks to health outcomes; incidence counts do not.
no
◐ secondary
Complication definition standardWhether the state defines reportable complications, and how.
—
n/a
Publishes a public annual reportWhether the state publishes its collected data publicly.
yes
◐ secondary
Legal context
Total abortion ban in effectWhether a total/near-total ban is currently in effect.
yes
◐ secondary
Detail & equity
Gestational-stage breakdownReports counts by gestational age — what makes late-term (21+ wk) figures visible.
yes
◐ secondary
Late-term (21+ wk) tablePublishes a gestational-age table that isolates a 21+ week (late-term) bracket.
yes
◐ secondary
Payment source (Medicaid vs private)Whether the report captures who paid — Medicaid/public funds vs private insurance vs self-pay.
no
◐ secondary
Marital status
yes
◐ secondary
Patient educationA socioeconomic indicator.
no
◐ secondary
Reproductive historyPrior pregnancies / live births / prior abortions.
yes
◐ secondary