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Three years after blocking Mississippi’s six-week abortion ban, a federal judge allowed it to become effective Wednesday, citing the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
The fate of Mississippi’s abortion trigger law, which will ban nearly all abortions in the state by July 7 if allowed to take effect, could be decided at a hearing in a Hinds County Chancery Court on Tuesday, July 5.
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