Jimmie Johnson: AN ABORTION TRIGGER LAW PASSED IN TWO-THOUSAND-SEVEN IS SET TO TAKE EFFECT TOMORROW IN MISSISSIPPI.
YESTERDAY — A JUDGE BLOCKED A CHALLENGE TO THE LAW FROM THE STATE’S ONLY ABORTION CLINIC.
Rob McDuff | attorney for Jackson Women’s Health Organization: “The women of Mississippi who do seek an abortion, who do make the decision that under the law, only they can make, not the state, about whether they should carry a pregnancy to term and give birth, they will be forced to do those things against their will, many of them.”
Jimmie Johnson: LIKE MANY TRIGGER LAWS — THE MISSISSIPPI LAW WAS WRITTEN TO TAKE EFFECT IF THE U-S SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE.
THAT HAPPENED IN A LANDMARK DECISION LAST MONTH.
Scott Stewart | state solicitor: “You know, if this suit were filed a month ago, if this hearing was two weeks ago, things would be very different. The plaintiffs would have a much different claim. But that’s because two weeks ago, there was a Roe v. Wade, there was a Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and there was a Pro-Choice Mississippi v. Fordice. That’s no longer true.”
Jimmie Johnson: TUESDAY’S RULING IS THE LATEST IN A FLURRY OF CHALLENGES TO THE SCOTUS RULING.
OTHER TRIGGER LAWS ARE BEING CONTESTED IN COURT, AND DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS ARE TAKING MEASURES TO PRESERVE ABORTION RIGHTS THROUGH LEGISLATION.
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