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U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson issued a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking Alabama from enforcing the …

• October 29, 2019

A decade after a majority of Mississippians voted against the Personhood Amendment, abortion rights organizers …

• November 17, 2021

House Approves Bill to Regulate Abortion Pills

Mississippi lawmakers are likely to approve a bill requiring a doctor to personally oversee the administration of abortion-inducing drugs and requiring the woman to return for a follow-up exam two …

Planned Parenthood to Forgo Payment in Fetal Tissue Programs

Responding to a furor over undercover videos, Planned Parenthood says it will maintain programs at some of its clinics that make fetal tissue available for research, but will no longer …

House Bills Hit Planned Parenthood, Some Abortion Doctors

Republicans pushed bills targeting Planned Parenthood and curbing some abortion procedures toward House passage Friday, with party leaders hoping the legislation will help mollify fractious conservatives demanding a face-off with …

Yazoo City-resident Mindy Brown joined abortion rights demonstrators outside the Mississippi State Capitol on May …

• May 24, 2019

Justice Clarence Thomas, who supports overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that first declared abortion …

• May 28, 2019

Jackson Women's Health Organization's doctors currently providing abortions are board-certified OB-GYNs, but no local hospital …

• April 28, 2014

No matter what happens with the U.S. Supreme Court and the effort to close the …

• January 26, 2016

Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson joined other anti-abortion protesters at a special Jackson City Council …

• September 26, 2019

The Jackson Women's Health Organization, which is the state's only abortion clinic, and one of …

• March 20, 2018

‘Killing Unborn Children’ Point of Kavanaugh Accusations, McDaniel Claims

The women accusing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault are part of a “charade” to keep abortion legal, U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel of Mississippi claimed in …

No Apologies: Inside Mississippi's Pro-Life Movement

Bruce Stuckey and Roy McMillan are doing what many people would consider radical—standing outside the Jackson Women's Health Clinic in mid-September, protesting in the rain. They are flanked by a …

‘Sunshine Law' Pushes Costs Up

By the time the legislative session ended in early May, lawmakers had passed two controversial bills that are likely to result in expensive legal battles. One requires doctors performing abortions …

Texas Abortion Bill Blocked by Last-Minute 'People's Filibuster'

Initially, Republicans insisted the vote started before the midnight deadline and passed the bill that Democrats spent the day trying to kill. But after official computer records and printouts of …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who argued in court filings that the teen did not …

• October 25, 2017

2014 Trial Set for Challenge of Miss. Abortion Law

A federal judge has set a jury trial next spring for a lawsuit filed by Mississippi's only abortion clinic.

Miss. Lawmakers OK Restrictions on Abortion Drugs

A bill headed to Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant says a physician would have to be present when a woman takes abortion-inducing drugs.

U.S. Court to Hear Arguments Over Miss. Abortion Law

A federal appeals court is expected to hear oral arguments in late April or early May in a lawsuit challenging a 2012 law that threatens to close Mississippi's only abortion …

Personhood Mississippi to Push for Amendment Again

Personhood Mississippi president Les Riley announced yesterday that the group will begin another petition drive to put a personhood initiative back on the ballot.