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Mississippi may be first state with no abortion clinic
Sun Herald ^ | June 22, 2012 | ESMA E. DEPREZand ELIZABETH WAIBEL

Posted on 06/23/2012 9:41:33 AM PDT by Islander7

New law requires physicians to have hospital admitting privileges

JACKSON -- Abortion will still be legal in Mississippi next month. It's just that women who live there probably won't be able to get one.

Beginning July 1, all abortion-clinic physicians must have admitting privileges at a local hospital under a law passed by the Republican-led Legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Phil Bryant in April. At the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the state's sole remaining clinic providing elective abortions, none of the three physicians who perform the procedure has been granted those privileges.

Mississippi may become the first state without a dedicated abortion clinic if the Jackson facility fails to come into compliance.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: abortion; healthcare; mississippi
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The law holds abortion providers to a higher standard and protects the rights of unborn children, said Terri Herring, national director of the Mississippi-based Pro Life America Network.

"If Mississippi closes the last abortion clinic, we will be leading the way," said Herring, who lobbied for the law.

Mississippi once had as many as 14 abortion clinics.

1 posted on 06/23/2012 9:41:46 AM PDT by Islander7
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To: Islander7

I suggest other states follow in Mississippi’s steps. This is a very smart way to shut down a clinic while keeping it ‘legal’.


2 posted on 06/23/2012 9:44:38 AM PDT by cableguymn (If your policies are pushing the economy in to headwinds.. TURN YOUR POLICY AROUND!)
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To: Islander7

...”under a law passed by the Republican-led Legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Phil Bryant in April.”

...funny how the Sun Herald is so certain this makes them the “bad guys”.


3 posted on 06/23/2012 9:45:27 AM PDT by albie
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To: Islander7
An abortion-free State--It's a beautiful thing.
4 posted on 06/23/2012 9:46:59 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: cableguymn
This is a very smart way to shut down a clinic while keeping it ‘legal’.

"Safe legal and rare--" 'rats should be pleased--just like BillyBoy said.

5 posted on 06/23/2012 9:49:19 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Islander7

Mississippi is leading us to a more moral policy. It s a start.


6 posted on 06/23/2012 9:51:41 AM PDT by Tau Food (Tom Hoefling for President - 2012)
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To: duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; jdirt; Vietnam Vet From New Mexico; wardaddy; KLT; ...

Magnolia State Ping!!


7 posted on 06/23/2012 10:04:19 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Sure is!


8 posted on 06/23/2012 10:09:57 AM PDT by free me (heartless)
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To: Tau Food
Mississippi is leading us to a more moral policy.

I think statists like Sanger meant for abortion to make up for the moral shortcomings of a secularist society. I mean when I was 18 in '73 I was all in on total license no accountability. But after 35-50 million abortions over a 40 year range the results in. Epic Fail!!!! Morality cannot be replaced.

9 posted on 06/23/2012 10:12:48 AM PDT by Calusa (The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
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To: Calusa

Yes, and we still have such a long way to go.


10 posted on 06/23/2012 10:15:17 AM PDT by Tau Food (Tom Hoefling for President - 2012)
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To: Islander7
Making Murder Miserable—em eye ess ess eye ess ess eye pee pee eye...

...Mississippi was the second noble and honorable nation (following my beloved and Holy SC of course) to declare independence from proto-Obama Yankee tyranny (yes nation-back then we were THESE United States—sovereign bodies in an alliance constitutionally binding as long as the federal entity followed the dictates of the document—which it didn't) so that makes them NEXT to the best! Which is pretty dang good.

11 posted on 06/23/2012 10:16:58 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("You may call me a racist but I insist Obama is not God.")
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To: hinckley buzzard
An abortion-free State--It's a beautiful thing.

Not quite abortion free. Regular hospitals and OB-gyns may still do early ones, perhaps describing and billing it as something else. Still, a huge deal.
12 posted on 06/23/2012 10:27:11 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("You forget, it isn't who you claim, but instead, who claims you. We don't claim you!")
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To: Islander7

Good riddance to abortion in MS. Other states should follow their lead. I lke to see Colorado where I live eliminate it as well. The problem are the libs in the population centers from Denver to Boulder.


13 posted on 06/23/2012 10:42:42 AM PDT by CORedneck
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Both large and small medical establishments nationwide conscientiously eschew abortion unless, in an emergency, the mother's life is in immanent danger.

Practicing on demand abortionists are, in the (unreported, natch) opinion of the medical community, apostates to the Hippocratic Oath and are considered misanthropic outcasts by those who do therapy and surgery in the cause of life.

14 posted on 06/23/2012 10:45:32 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("You may call me a racist but I insist Obama is not God.")
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To: Islander7

Finally not #50 or 49 at something and it is something great!!


15 posted on 06/23/2012 11:09:35 AM PDT by WKB (There are too many coincidences in this world...... for this world to be a coincidence.)
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To: Islander7; stylecouncilor; windcliff

I always knew the South would rise again.


16 posted on 06/23/2012 11:16:10 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Islander7

this is right and good. prayers and blessings to all who had a hand in this outcome. I am sure this result has been laid brick by brick. Shows the power of what can happen if we work for something and Never give up.


17 posted on 06/23/2012 11:51:53 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: hinckley buzzard

I don’t dare to pretend to know what God will do or when, but if Mississippi were a stock, I’d buy it.


18 posted on 06/23/2012 12:22:22 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2
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To: Islander7
"The Legislature took steps to end abortion in Mississippi"

Amen!!!

19 posted on 06/23/2012 1:02:01 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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The law holds abortion providers to a higher standard and protects the rights of unborn children, said Terri Herring, national director of the Mississippi-based Pro Life America Network.

Actually, the law won't cause abortion providers to be treated any differently than any other doctor with regards to hospital privileges. This is simply correcting an anomaly created by the pro-abortion forces when the clinics were opened.

MOST clinics don't have a doctor on staff all the time. Many abortionists will fly into a city from out of town, or even out of state, and do abortions for only one day. Not surprising they wouldn't have hospital privileges. But for the safety of the woman, the doctor SHOULD be able to admit to a hospital, in case of a dire emergency. What else are they gonna do, drop her in the parking lot and blow the car horn?

20 posted on 06/23/2012 1:05:22 PM PDT by SuziQ
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