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Abortion clinic fighting closure; urging patients to help

Associated Press — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:18:43 +0000

JACKSON— Mississippi’s only abortion clinic can’t meet the mandates of a 2012 state law, and the governor wants to shut it down. But the Jackson Women’s Health Organization is not quietly retreating. The law requires that the clinic’s doctors have local hospital admitting privileges. They can be hard to obtain, and some hospitals won’t give [...]

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Medicaid to pay Health workers; dozens of jobs saved

Associated Press — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:32:58 +0000

JACKSON — Mississippi Medicaid officials will resume paying state Health Department workers to help women with high-risk pregnancies. The agreement, announced Friday, starts June 1 and runs through June 30, 2014. Medicaid has typically paid the Health Department more than $8.5 million a year for the program. The new agreement reverses last month’s decision by [...]

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Abortion clinic continuing to see patients after judge’s ruling

Associated Press — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:42:32 +0000

JACKSON — Mississippi’s only abortion clinic continued seeing patients yesterday, the day after a federal judge temporarily stopped the state from closing it. Several people wearing florescent yellow vests labeled “Clinic Escort” helped women find parking places and walked with them into the cherry pink building in a Jackson retail district. Outside an iron fence [...]

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Governor withdraws anti-abortionist’s nomination to Health Board

Associated Press — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:52:40 +0000

RIDGELAND — Gov. Phil Bryant said Monday he’s withdrawing his nomination of anti-abortion activist Terri Herring of Ridgeland to the state Board of Health. Bryant’s decision came after The Associated Press questioned whether Bryant was fulfilling requirements of a state law that specifies the board’s 11 members must come from certain parts of the state. [...]

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Governor reiterates his anti-abortion position

Associated Press — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:51:11 +0000

JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant told several dozen pastors and other abortion proponents yesterday that he supports a bill that would ban the procedure once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. It’s similar to a bill that was filed and killed by a Senate chairman last year. “It would tell that mother, ‘Your child has [...]

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Health Department inspects abortion clinic; owner expects citation

Associated Press — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:27:53 +0000

JACKSON — Health officials have inspected Mississippi’s lone abortion clinic, the first step in a process that could lead to its closure if a new state law survives a legal challenge. Following Monday’s inspection, the Mississippi Department of Health has 10 working days to issue findings. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization continues to perform abortions [...]

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Judge gives abortion clinic more time to meet new law

Associated Press — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:33:42 +0000

JACKSON — The future of Mississippi’s only clinic where women can get an abortion remains unclear after a federal judge’s ruling in a closely watched court case. U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III ruled that a strict abortion law passed by the Republican-controlled legislature can take effect, but he gave the clinic more time [...]

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