“Politicians and policy makers know the end of Roe will mean drastic changes within the state, and they aren’t doing anything to prepare or to address Mississippi’s current social woes,” sociologist Kimberly Kelly writes.
Kimberly Kelly
Kimberly Kelly, PhD., is a sociologist at a Mississippi university. She studies the intersections of religion and reproductive politics, specifically abortion activism in the United States, including the crisis pregnancy movement and post-abortion syndrome. Dr. Kelly is currently working on a book project on abortion politics in Mississippi based on interviews from 29 activists and 54 women who have had abortions in the state. She has also completed 50 hours of field observations of protesters outside Mississippi’s only abortion clinic.