Closed Wednesday, July 7, at 7:07 pm, the only Mississippi abortion clinic, located in the middle of historic abortion reversed by the US Supreme Court, was closed.
Jackson Women's Health Organization was nicknamed "the pink house" due to the color of its walls. It performed its last surgeries before the law banning abortions in impoverished states took effect on Thursday. Southern Conservative.
The Pink House Fund, which collects donations for the operation, tweeted that "This is a very difficult day for us" "Today is our final day fighting against all odds and providing abortions in places no one else can or will. He said, "We are proud of what we have accomplished."
Despite its imperfections, the clinic gained international attention by initiating the legal proceedings that led to, on June 24, the Supreme Court's decision to bury Roe v. Wade, which, since 1973, guarantees the right for American women to have an abortion.
In fact, the establishment had filed a complaint against a Mississippi law that reduced the deadlines for abortion. Donald Trump had completely overhauled the high court and used this file to allow each state to cancel or ban abortions.
Thirteen states anticipated this shift, and passed laws to take effect immediately. Mississippi's 2007 law provides penalties up to ten year imprisonment for any offense. It also allows for an exception in the case of danger to the mother's life, but no rape or incest.
The Pink House asked the local justice to stop this law, but they refused. It was forced to close.
According to The Washington Post, an attorney representing the clinic said that the clinic will appeal the decision in the coming days. "The bans... should have been blocked, as they are based on the protections in the Mississippi Constitution. He argued that a person doesn't lose their bodily autonomy when they get pregnant.
Because most neighboring states are equally hostile to abortion, Mississippi pregnant women who do not wish to continue their pregnancy must either travel hundreds of miles or use the abortion pill.
Several other establishments across the country have also closed. Whole Woman's Health announced Wednesday that it would close its Texas clinics to make way for a New Mexico one.
Planned Parenthood has also closed Missouri's only St. Louis clinic.
Louisiana's legal battles delayed the deadline, but access to abortion should eventually disappear in half the American states.
