On Friday, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Appeals ruled in Jackson Women’s Health Organization v. Dobbs that the state cannot ban abortion before viability.
Mississippi
Mississippi’s Only Abortion Clinic Gets a Reprieve
The last abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, has won a temporary injunction against the enforcement of a 2012 state law that would have required it to shut down. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III blocked the state from closing the clinic as it attempts to comply with a TRAP law […]
Alabama Abortion Clinic Struggles; Mississippi’s Forges On
When Diane Derzis shut the doors of the New Woman All Women Health Care clinic in Birmingham, Ala., last May, she did not expect the clinic to be shut for good. Derzis, known as the “Abortion Queen” by both her opponents and her supporters in the Deep South, was under investigation by the Alabama Department […]
War on Women Returns to Mississippi—Where It’s Been All Along
UPDATE, JULY 11: U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan has ordered an extension of the temporary order, allowing the Jackson Women’s Health Organization to stay open. He will now review rules from the Mississippi Department of Health on how they will administer the state’s new abortion law, and then determine whether the abortion clinic can remain […]
Mississippi’s Sole Abortion Provider is in Danger
Update 4/4/2012: HB 1390 passed the legislature today and awaits the governor’s signature. Ninety-nine percent of counties in Mississippi are devoid of an abortion provider. Soon, it might be 100 percent. On the final day to review general bills, the Mississippi Senate Public Health Committee passed HB 1390, which requires doctors performing abortions to be […]