{"id":263869,"date":"2022-03-07T06:37:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=263869"},"modified":"2022-03-05T20:02:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:02:13","slug":"mississippi-may-one-abortion-clinic-30-pregnancy-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mississippi-may-one-abortion-clinic-30-pregnancy-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi has one abortion facility but more than 30 pro-life pregnancy centers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to rule in June on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> regarding the Mississippi Gestational Age Act, which restricts abortion to the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion advocates argue that allowing the law to stand would harm women as well as Jackson Women’s Health Organization \u2014 the last remaining abortion business in the state. But the reality is that women don’t need abortion, and while there is only one abortion facility in Mississippi, there are more than 30 pregnancy centers<\/a>\u00a0in the state ready and waiting to connect women to the resources that will help them overcome the obstacles pushing them toward abortion.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court case<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court is considering “whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” The court’s decision in June could overturn Roe v. Wade<\/em>, keep it in place, or alter it to allow states to restrict abortion beginning at 15 weeks instead of the current 24 weeks. Jackson Women’s Health Organization commits abortion up to 16 weeks \u2014 just one week after the cutoff gestational age in question, which means the restrict would likely affect their business very little. About\u00a092% of the abortions<\/a> carried out in the state in 2019 took place prior to 13 weeks. Eight percent were committed between weeks 13 and 16.<\/p>\n

In all, there were 3,194 abortions<\/a> committed in Mississippi in 2019, an increase of six percent from 2018. The abortion pill accounted for 71% of those abortions, which Jackson Women’s Health dispenses for use up to 11 weeks. The rest were committed using the D&C abortion method, shown in the video below.<\/p>\n

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