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In 2014, there was still only one abortion clinic in Mississippi. [57] 99% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic. That year, 91% of women in the state aged 15–44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. [58] Around 90% of Jackson Women's Health services were abortion related in 2017.
It was the only abortion clinic in Mississippi since the other one closed in 2006. [4] The JWHO closed its doors on July 6, 2022, following the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, and the day before Mississippi's near-complete abortion ban went into effect. [5]
This color-coded map illustrates the current legal status of elective-specific abortion procedures in each of the individual states, U.S. territories, and federal district. [a] A colored border indicates a more stringent restriction or ban that is blocked by legal injunction.
A protestor supporting abortion rallies outside of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization on the last day the clinic is legally allowed to be open in Jackson Wednesday, July 6, 2022.
Derenda Hancock, clinic escort, yells at anti-abortion protestors blocking drivers outside of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization on the last day the clinic is legally allowed to be open in ...
The Mississippi House of Representatives has seen eight bills filed on abortion this year. Are any likely to get out of committee? Abortion is illegal in Mississippi, but 8 related bills have been ...
This 2014 map shows 60-mile access to abortion providers in Texas. An abortion clinic is a medical facility that provides abortions. Abortion clinics may be private or public medical practices or nonprofit organizations. In 27 major cities, and much of rural America, most people live 100 miles or more from an abortion clinic. [2]
After years of picking at abortion by creating laws to make it harder and harder to get the procedure, the poorest state in the United States — a state that tops the list when it comes to infant ...