Mississippi Ordered Not to Enforce Part of Abortion Law
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Mississippi was barred by a judge from enforcing a regulation requiring abortion clinic doctors to have hospital admitting privileges, which may allow the state’s only abortion clinic to remain open while it fights the law in court.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan in Jackson, Mississippi, said the Jackson Women’s Health Organization faces closure after its physicians were rejected by hospitals. That would place an undue burden on women seeking the procedure because they’d have to travel to another state for a legal abortion, according to Jordan’s order yesterday.