Famous Mississippi ‘Pink House’ Abortion Clinic Is Painted White, Will Become Luxury Consignment Store

In one of many worst visible metaphors I’ve ever seen, Mississippi’s one embattled abortion clinic—known as the Pink Home for its bubblegum stucco partitions—has now been painted white and is about to re-open as a luxurious consignment retailer promoting high-end house items and furnishings.

Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group in Jackson, Mississippi, was the state’s solely abortion clinic since 2004 and was relentlessly focused by lawmakers and protestors. When the Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade final spring, the justices have been listening to a case a few 2018 Mississippi regulation through which the Pink Home was the plaintiff difficult the regulation. The clinic served its final sufferers on July 6 earlier than the state’s set off ban took impact.

Gulf States Newsroom reporter Shalina Chatlani shared a photograph of the previous clinic’s new exterior on Tuesday, calling it “surreal” and including that the constructing is in a “extremely gentrified neighborhood” often called Fondren.

The information of the shop taking on was first reported in January, however renovations on the three,000 sq. foot constructing had simply begun. Hunt The Store is relocating from a smaller retailer lower than a half-mile away and was initially set to open March 1, however Hunt stated on its Instagram that it plans to open at 2903 North State Avenue—the previous clinic website—on March 22.

Hunt proprietor David Carpenter advised NBC Information that he wasn’t enthusiastic about discussing the previous of the constructing that he purchased in July from a developer.

“I actually don’t need to get into the political facet of it,” Carpenter stated in January. “That was then. That is now. I need to do one thing that the neighborhood will embrace. I need it to be a optimistic factor.”

That’s good for him, I suppose, but it surely does appear to be it’s method too simple for a white male enterprise proprietor to brush apart the historical past of a constructing that fought and misplaced in opposition to a decades-long conservative effort to erase a basic proper. A constructing that predominantly served Black sufferers, because it was positioned in a majority-Black metropolis within the U.S. state with the very best proportion of Black residents. A metropolis that, to today, can’t get state and federal leaders to resolve the water disaster attributable to many years of systemic racism.

And Carpenter solely owns the constructing as a result of JWHO proprietor Diane Derzis, who can be white, selected to promote it and open a clinic in New Mexico, somewhat than keep in the neighborhood and supply contraception and prenatal care, as different former abortion clinics have carried out.

Better of luck re-selling wealthy individuals’s armchairs, David.