Mississippi’s only abortion clinic closes after Roe v Wade overturned: ‘Our last day fighting against all the odds’

Mississippi’s solely abortion clinic, the Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group, closed its doorways on Wednesday (Footage: Reuters/AFP/Getty Pictures/AP)

The final abortion clinic in Mississippi, nicknamed The Pink Home by sufferers and supporters, has closed its doorways after triggering the authorized course of that led to the Supreme Court docket overturning Roe v Wade.

‘As we speak is a tough day for all of us @ the final abortion supplier in Mississippi,’ tweeted the Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group on Wednesday afternoon.

‘It's our final day combating in opposition to all the percentages – of being there when no different suppliers would or may.

‘We're pleased with the work we've got performed right here. Thank U for all of your assist.’

As we speak is a tough day for all of us @ the final abortion supplier in Mississippi. It's our final day combating in opposition to all the percentages – of being there when no different suppliers would or may. We're pleased with the work we've got performed right here. Thank U for all of your assist.

— The Pink Home Fund (@PinkHouseFund) July 6, 2022

The Pink Home challenged a 2018 Mississippi regulation that banned most abortions after 15 weeks of being pregnant. The clinic had been performing the process on ladies by 16 weeks of being pregnant, however earlier Supreme Court docket rulings allowed abortion by fetal viability at round 24 weeks.

On June 24, the Supreme Court docket dominated 6-3 in favor of Mississippi in Dobbs v Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group, which was The Pink Home’s problem to the state abortion regulation.

Mississippi’s ‘set off regulation’ handed in 2007 went into impact 10 days after the Supreme Court docket overturned Roe, banning abortions after Wednesday and carrying penalties of as much as 10 years in jail for violations.

Anticipating the set off regulation, the Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group filed a lawsuit searching for a brief block on that laws. However a decide denied the petition on Tuesday, saying that delaying the abortion ban ‘would clearly hurt the state and its residents by denying the general public curiosity in enforcement of its legal guidelines’.

Clinic escorts in colourful vests helped sufferers get previous pro-life protesters and into The Pink Home for abortions (Image: MetroUK/Jessica Kwong)

After the Supreme Court docket’s ruling, Pink Home proprietor Diane Derzis mentioned she didn't remorse submitting the lawsuit that ended up undercutting virtually 5 a long time of abortion case regulation.

‘We didn’t have a selection,’ mentioned Derzis, who lives in Alabama and in addition owns abortion clinics in Georgia and Virginia. ‘And if it hadn’t been this lawsuit, it will have been one other one.’

Within the days after the ruling, docs at The Pink Home tried to see as many sufferers as attainable earlier than they had been shuttered.

And though the clinic stopped offering procedures on Wednesday, pro-choice and pro-life teams nonetheless confronted off outdoors The Pink Home on Thursday, in accordance with a video by the Related Press.

Derzis on the day Roe was reversed vowed that clinic workers will proceed with their mission ‘as a result of that’s our spirit, that’s what we do, we do abortion’.

‘The Pink Home, whereas it’s an exquisite constructing, is only a constructing,’ Derzis advised Metro.co.uk on the time.

‘The Pink Home – we’ll have pink homes throughout this nation.’

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