Laws banning abortions after six-weeks of pregnancy like Mississippi’s so-called fetal “heartbeat” law are “a terrible mistake,” former President Donald Trump said over the weekend.
A 13-year-old rape victim from Cleveland, Miss., who had no access to safe and legal abortion care in the state, gave birth around Aug. 14.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch needs to stay out of residents’ private health records and stop in her effort to identify those who have obtained abortions across state lines, her Democratic opponent Greta Kemp Martin said at the Neshoba County Fair.
Mississippi Sen. Chris McDaniel’s claim that Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann once led a Jackson abortion clinic is “totally false and has been rejected by every pro-life organization which has investigated it,” the incumbent’s campaign said in a statement to the Mississippi Free Press.
Mississippi authorities need access to information about residents who obtain abortions or gender-affirming care in other states, Attorney General Lynn Fitch told the Biden administration in a June 16 letter.
“The overturn of Roe v. Wade has stripped constitutional rights away, caused dangerous situations, and has led to rampant misinformation that not only harms, but can kill women,” Rachele Chung writes.
Mississippians are “all worse off” a year after Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office succeeded in convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn federal protections for abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, her opponent said in a statement ahead of the anniversary.
“What happens in Mississippi does not stay in Mississippi, and the Magnolia State is not the outlier that many who only ever offer sneers and derision for our state and our people would like to think,” Ashton Pittman writes.
A federal appeals court should block access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide, including in states where it remains legal, Mississippi’s attorney general and four state Republican members of Congress told a three-judge panel in briefs filed Wednesday.
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