The last Wednesday of its existence, the only Mississippi abortion clinic, was closed by the U.S. Supreme Court at the heart the historic abortion reversal.
Jackson Women's Health Organization was nicknamed "Pink House" due to the color of its walls. It carried out its final interventions before the enactment of a law that bans all abortions in the state. Poor and conservative South.
"It's very difficult day for us, and for the last Mississippi abortion clinic," tweeted the "Pink House fund", which solicits donations to support the institution's operation.
"It's our last fight against everything and offering abortions wherever no one else could or wanted. 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 legal deadlines to abort. 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 in footing and passed laws to take effect immediately.
Mississippi law was adopted in 2007. It carries a maximum of ten years imprisonment for any offense. However, it allows for exceptions only in the case of danger to the mother's life, but not incest or rape.
The Pink House asked the local justice for a blockade of this law, but the courts declined and the Pink House was forced to close.
Pregnant women in Mississippi who don't want to end their pregnancies and are not willing to travel hundreds of miles for an abortion in Illinois will need to use the abortion pill or travel to neighboring states.
Several other establishments across the country have also closed. Whole Woman's Health announced Wednesday that it will close four Texas clinics to make way for a New Mexico one.
The Planned Parenthood organisation also operated Missouri's only St. Louis clinic. All procedures were stopped as of June 23.
Louisiana's legal battles delayed the deadline, but access to abortion should eventually disappear in half the American states.
