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This week in abortion news
TweetBad News: Alabama passed a bill which pretends to be about protecting women but is actually aimed at shutting down abortion clinics on Tuesday. The governor has said he will sign the bill, ironically called the “Women’s Health and Safety Act,” which requires that doctors preforming abortions be granted admitting privileges at local hospitals. Some of [...]
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Mississippi is one step closer to being the first “abortion-free” state
Tweet An anti-choice protestor outside the Jackson Women’s Health clinic. Photo by Matt Eich from Kate Sheppard’s essay at Mother Jones. Check out more photos here. The last abortion clinic in Mississippi is officially out of compliance with a new law that could ultimately shut it down. As we’ve written before, the state passed new [...]
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Another temporary win for Mississippi’s only abortion clinic
TweetYesterday the judge who holds the power to shut down Mississippi’s only abortion clinic said he’d extend the temporary block on the new TRAP law, while he continues to decide whether to grant a preliminary injunction. As Vanessa noted when the law was first blocked earlier this month, the judge is more than a little [...]
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Mississippi judge blocks law that would shut down only abortion clinic in the state
Tweet As you may have heard recently, legislators in Mississippi were successful in passing a TRAP law designed to put the only abortion clinic in the state out of business, making it the first state in the union to have no access to legal and safe abortion care. The good news is that yesterday, the day it [...]
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Judge blocks closing of Mississippi’s last abortion clinic