The sole abortion provider in Mississippi, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, will close down Thursday when the state’s “trigger” abortion law becomes enforceable following a judge’s decision to uphold it.
Jackson Women’s Health Organization was the center of the recent case in the Supreme Court, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that resulted in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, undoing the federal right to abortion nationwide. The clinic, known as the Pink House, lost its fight for injunctive relief on Tuesday as Chancery Judge Debbra Halford ruled to uphold the state’s trigger law that bans abortions except in cases of rape as long as it has been reported to law enforcement, as well as instances in which the mother’s life is in danger.
