Mississippi’s only abortion clinic shuts down, moves to New Mexico

The final abortion clinic in Mississippi formally shut down Wednesday, a day earlier than a set off ban towards nearly all abortion procedures is poised to take impact within the state, following the Supreme Courtroom’s choice final month to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Shannon Brewer, who led the clinic concerned within the controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group Supreme Courtroom case, informed The Washington Publish in Could about plans to relocate to New Mexico, the place abortion procedures are nonetheless authorized.

Now, after a decide refused Jackson Girls’s Well being Group’s request for a brief block on the Mississippi set off ban, Brewer informed The Texas Tribune that her staff is relocating providers to Las Cruces, N.M.

As of the June 24 Supreme Courtroom opinion, the facility to manage abortion now falls to particular person states, making a patchwork of legal guidelines that can require many ladies searching for abortions to cross state borders.

Many corporations have promised to pay for such journey for workers, whereas Democratic states have sought to enact protections for these crossing state strains to entry the process.

In late June, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an government order defending medical suppliers within the state from “self-discipline because of an out-of-state resident receiving abortion providers in New Mexico,” based on a launch from the governor’s workplace.

Grisham’s order additionally established that “New Mexico is not going to entertain extradition makes an attempt from different states referring to receiving or performing reproductive providers.”

Abortions are restricted in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona and Utah, which border New Mexico. Texas made headlines final fall with a legislation that banned abortion after six weeks of being pregnant. This spring, Oklahoma banned abortions from the purpose of fertilization. 

In neighboring Colorado, the process is authorized in any respect levels of being pregnant.