Today marks the deadline for Mississippi’s sole remaining abortion clinic, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, to comply with the restrictive, unnecessary restrictions that the state’s Republican legislators imposed last summer. The new regulations require the clinic’s doctors to secure hospital admitting privileges, but all seven hospitals in the surrounding area have so far denied them. A Bush-appointed federal judge temporarily blocked the lawto give the doctors more time to secure the privileges they need, but that order expires today.
Mississippi Governor: 'My Goal Of Course Is To Shut Down' The State's Last Abortion Clinic
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