Miss. may become only state without abortion clinic

CBS

(AP) JACKSON, Miss. - A new Mississippi law taking effect this weekend could soon make it the only state without an abortion clinic.

Critics say the law would force women to drive hours across the state line to obtain a constitutionally protected procedure, or could even force some to carry unwanted pregnancies to term.

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant and other top officials say limiting the number of abortions is exactly what they want.

The state's only abortion clinic is asking a federal judge to temporarily block the law from taking effect Sunday. So far, that hasn't happened.

The law says anyone performing abortions at the clinic must be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. The clinic contends the admitting privileges requirement is designed to force it out of business.

[pennypickle12]

Personally I don't want anyone performing an abortion on me who is not a board-certified OB-GYN with admitting privileges at a local hospital. What if I'm one of the women who suffer some type of complication and needs urgent medical attention? Some doofus might just send me home because s/he doesn't know what to do. I don't want some half-a**ed half-trained (in performing abortions) family practice doctor performing a procedure that might jack up my uterus and render me infertile for the rest of my life. In order to graduate from an accredited OB-GYN residency program you have to be trained in performing abortions, so if I'm gonna have one, I want it to be as safe as possible by the best trained physician in the area. Just sayin'

[jimatmadison]

So you support only letting well-to-do people get abortions, then.

Just sayin'.

[jimatmadison]

Let me rephrase my comment:

You support only letting well-to-do people get safe, legal abortions.

'Cuz the dirty coat hanger folks will be there for your less financially fortunate neighbors.

[gryphon501]

and they will soon have a flood of unwanted, neglected children growing up there. They can go ahead and add to Mississippi's poverty, ignorance and crime. Enjoy!

[CHICO_KK]

Where the hell is Eric Holder? Why hasn't he filed a lawsuit against the state?

[Filmguy870]

Note to self: AVOID MISSISSIPPI!!! (and the South in general!)

[markmazza]

This only shows just how far the extreme right will go to get there way! The right to have an abortion is the law of the land and it's unconscionable that Mississippi will not even allow a single clinic in there state.

I feel the justice department should file suit against the state and require at least one clinic be made available to women...this is outrageous and completely fascist!

[thechooch1]

This from a right wing State that ranks last in everything that counts.

[jimatmadison]

They're first in ignorance, and trying to elbow up to first in line at the federal pork trough.

Even with the huge disparity between federal dollars out and federal dollars in, Mississippi politicians claim they can't afford decent schools.

What the heck do they do with my tax money?

[Kestrel88]

Another law that has no effect on the wealthy -- women of means in Mississippi will continue to have access to safe, legal abortion.

[jimatmadison]

Just the way the GOP version of God intended.

[Haw_Haw]

Fortunately this wont stop most WHITES from getting one. Mississippi will turn into a an Africa country in less than 5 years!! YAY, now no one has to leave the country anymore!!

[jimatmadison]

As abortion access is restricted to well-to-do whites in Mississippi, the Hispanic population in states like Texas grows, and seqz education is dumbed down to total uselessness by preaching abstinence-only across the south, the red states will turn blue as the minority populations propagate.

[jerryomara]

I once had to drive through Miss. on my way from Florida to California that's as close as anyone with a brain would want to be to that place a child is not a child until it is born. If men had babies Abortion would be a sacrament. And to the one that said stay up north trust me we will.

[jimatmadison]

Woo Hoo! Dirty coat hangers all around!! What could go wrong?

Oh, by the way, if you have money, your usual options still exist - taking time off to go out of state, finding a friendly doctor willing to give a different name to the procedure, and so on.

Same old, same old. Rules against the poor and working class that really don't apply to the wealthy.