Lawyers: Mississippi making abortion 'virtually unavailable'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press Updated 4:50 pm CDT, Friday, April 26, 2019

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi law banning most abortions starting at about six weeks of pregnancy is unconstitutional and will make the procedure "virtually unavailable" in the state, reproductive rights attorneys say.

In a court filing Thursday, the attorneys gave detailed arguments about why they want a federal judge to block the law from taking effect July 1.

State attorneys wrote last week that Mississippi has an interest in preserving fetal life "from the moment of conception."

The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Mississippi Center for Justice are representing Mississippi's only abortion clinic. They sued the state in March after Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed a law banning most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, about six weeks into pregnancy.


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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[More_Cowbell]

2. Surely MS will fund prenatal care, Head Start, etc.

To take care of all those babies. Right?

[Turbineguy]

3. It's them damn lubruls!

Trying to steal our poverty!

[Warren_Pointe]

4. Amazing how things can change in 30 years.

In the '80's, a friend of mine in SE Arkansas took his brother's underage girlfriend to MS for an abortion because their rules were less stringent than in AR.