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If Democrats choose Brandon Presley as their party’s nominee in the August 2023 primaries, the 45-year-old candidate from Nettleton, Miss., would likely face incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, who is running for re-election this year.
The parents of a teenage Mississippi rape victim had to travel more than 500 miles to help their daughter obtain an abortion in Illinois, WAPT’s Megan West reported. The family told the local Jackson anchor that they learned their daughter was pregnant three days beyond Mississippi’s legal limit of six weeks.
A conservative litigation group filed a lawsuit this week to overturn Pro-Choice Mississippi v. Fordice, with the goal of ending what may be a legal loophole protecting abortion rights in Mississippi.
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, is standing by Georgia Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker even amid domestic-violence allegations and revelations that the anti-abortion candidate may have once paid for an abortion.
At least 5,000 more babies will be born in Mississippi each year than in the past now that abortion is almost completely outlawed and the Magnolia State is not prepared to handle it, officials say. Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney shared that estimate with members of the Mississippi Senate.
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.
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn announced a bipartisan slate of lawmakers who will comprise his Speaker’s Commission on Life and steer the effort to craft legislation focused on pregnancy, children and families.
An abortion-pill manufacturer dismissed a federal lawsuit yesterday, giving up its challenge to a Mississippi law prohibiting nearly all medication abortions in the state.
Dr. William Lineaweaver writes that it is “unimaginable that legislators and jurists, like Republican Ohio State Rep. Jean Schmidt, believe in the absolute value of a fetus, regardless of circumstance or stage of conception,” especially if that circumstance is rape.
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