The problem with any anti-abortion law is that some judge seems to pop up out of nowhere and prevent it from going into effect.
Basically, the TN Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that the TN Constitution had a stronger provision for "privacy" than the US Constitution does. (Notwithstanding the fact that neither one of them has any provision for "privacy" at all.) Therefore, since the TN invisible privacy clause is stronger than the USA invisible privacy clause, TN does not have a right to restrict abortion in any way that actually restricts abortion.
IOW, The TN Supreme Court is saying that the TN Constitution, as it stands, as passed in 1870, eighteen-seventy, secures an absolute right to abortion.
So the purpose of YesOn1 is to restore the neutrality of the TN Constitution on abortion. Neither securing nor denying a right to abortion.
It is worded in a convoluted lawyerly way, to preemptively fend off legal challenges. That's all well and good, except that it's all complex and subtle and does not LOOK like a pro-life amendment.
I am amazed and appalled at how many conservative, prolife Tennesseans Do. Not. Have. A. Clue. :o(
Thats' what makes me scared for the Amendment.