Mississippi: Window into future of abortion debate

[davidinalameda]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/12/24/mississippi.abortions.ap/index.html

Outside are protesters, praying or proffering pamphlets with grisly photos. Inside, young women sit quietly in a room furnished with a TV set and a gumball machine, waiting for their appointments at Mississippi's only abortion clinic.

These are busy -- but worrisome -- days for the Jackson Women's Health Organization, which has added many clients since the other remaining clinic closed last summer. The clinic's staff and supporters know their adversaries will try relentlessly to shut their office down, taking another step toward making legal abortions in the state virtually nonexistent.

For both sides in the national debate over abortion, Mississippi has become Exhibit A: It is widely considered the state with the most thorough arsenal of laws, policies and public pressure aimed at curtailing the procedure. There used to be seven abortion clinics in the state; now it is the most populous of a handful of states with only one.

[TahitiNut]

1. The wealthy will NEVER be denied a safe, legal abortion.

Closing such clinics is an assault on the working class - the "bottom 90%" who can't afford travel and personal physicians for such care.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1103595