‘Abortion Trafficking’ Would Be A Crime in Mississippi Under Republican Bill
Mississippi Republicans introduced bills in January to make “abortion trafficking,” advertising abortion information and mail-in abortion pills criminal offenses.
Mississippi Republicans introduced bills in January to make “abortion trafficking,” advertising abortion information and mail-in abortion pills criminal offenses.
Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights.
Lynn Fitch, the antiabortion Mississippi attorney general who led the Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade, won reelection Tuesday night.
Mississippi Sen. Joey Fillingane, the Republican who authored Mississippi’s trigger law that banned nearly all abortions in the state, is falsely claiming that a new effort to enshrine a right to birth control in state law will legalize “morning-after abortions.” But morning-after abortions do not exist.
Navigating Mississippi’s strict abortion laws remains confusing for many residents more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down federal abortion rights in
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.
Mississippi’s two highest-ranking women leaders, U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, rejoiced over the weekend after a Texas federal judge blocked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
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Hattiesburg, Miss., native Virginia Sciolino writes that when having discussions centering abortion and women’s reproductive rights, emotional intelligence and empathy is needed to break barriers and to challenge systemic disparities. We should “come into conversations with an emphasis on empathy, boundaries, mutual care and respect,” she writes.
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