This abortion clinic nicknamed the “Maison Rose” was initiated by the trial lost against the state of the Mississippi, which gave the Supreme Court the opportunity to cancel the ROE vs Wade judgment guaranteeing the Right to abortion everywhere in the United States.
Le Monde with AFP
The only clinic practicing pregnancy interruptions in the state of Mississippi, at the heart of the historic flip-flop of the Supreme Court of the United States on abortion, closed its doors on Wednesday, July 7. p>
The establishment Jackson Women’s Health Organization, nicknamed the “Pink House” because of the color of its walls, carried out its latest interventions before the entry into force, Thursday, of a law prohibiting all abortion in this Poor state and southern conservative.
“It’s a very hard day for us and for the last Mississippi abortion clinic”, a tweeted the pink house fund which collects donations to ensure the operation of the institution. “It is our last day to fight against everything and to offer abortion where no one else could or wanted to do it. We are proud of the work accomplished,” he added.
The clinic has, in spite of itself, won international notoriety being initiated by the legal proceedings that led to the Supreme Court on June 24 to bury its ROE VS WADE judgment which, since 1973, guaranteed the right of the Americans to abort. 2>
abortion soon prohibited in half of the states
The establishment had indeed filed a complaint against a Mississippi law which reduced legal deadlines to abort. The high court, deeply altered by Donald Trump, used this file to return to each State the freedom to cancel or prohibit abortion on their soil. Thirteen states had anticipated this change of foot and adopted laws designed to enter immediately in force.
that of the Mississippi, adopted in 2007, is accompanied by sentences of up to ten years in prison in the event of an offense and only provides exceptional in the event of a danger for the life of the mother, but not rape or incest. The Rose house had asked local justice to block this law but the courts refused, leaving it no more choice than to close.
Most neighboring states being just as hostile to abortion, the pregnant women of the Mississippi do not wish to continue their pregnancy must have recourse, alone, to the abortive pill or browse hundreds of kilometers to abort in Illinois.
Elsewhere in the country, several other establishments have put the key under the door. The Whole Woman’s Health group announced on Wednesday to close its four Texas clinics to open a new one in the neighboring state of the New Mexico. The only clinic in Missouri in Saint-Louis, managed by the Planned Parenthood organization, also ceased any procedure, from June 23. Legal battles have delayed the deadline in Louisiana, for example, but, in the long term, access to abortion should disappear in half of the American states.