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Mississippi’s Governor Is Protecting Whose Lives?

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Gov. Bryant isn’t even bothering to pretend the TRAP law is about women’s health anymore.

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization Files Suit Over TRAP Law

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Unable to get hospital privileges for its practitioners, the clinic has filed a lawsuit against enforcing the new law.

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“Personhood” Movement Not About Outlawing Birth Control?

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In a Newsweek puff piece on Keith Mason, the leader of Personhood USA, the article lets himget away with a few whoppers.

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Mississippi Prepares to Go Into Action To Immediately Enforce TRAP Law

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The new law goes into effect on July 1st.  The bill’s sponsor wants the clinic inspected on July 2nd.

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On Eve of “Fortnight of Freedom,” North Dakota Votes By Wide Margin to Maintain Firewall Between Religion and Health Care

Last night, the voters of North Dakota decisively defeated a ballot initiative that one news outlet called an “ecclesiastical mugging.” By a margin of 64 percent to 36 percent, voters said “no” to an effort to impose religious doctrine on health care, social policy, and law in the state.

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Sexual Health Roundup: Mississippi Sex-Ed Deadline Looms and Survey Finds LGBT Teens Are Less Happy

Sexual Health Roundup: A Mississippi mandate for sexuality education means that school districts have to choose between and abstinence-only or an abstinence-based approach by the end of the month; a survey by the Human Rights Campaign finds that LGBT teens are less happy than their straight peers; and a new condom company promises that for every condom sold it will donate one condom to women in regions with high HIV rates. 

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Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic Still Struggling To Get Admitting Privileges

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If they do not receive privileges by July 1st when the state’s new law goes into effect, they will no longer be allowed to perform abortions.

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Bubba and His Poor, Pitiful Women: Anti-Choice Politician Admits He Doesn’t Care if Women Die

A Mississippi politican would rather let women die than have access to abortions in his state.

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The United States: Where Pregnancy is Probationary and Your Body Is a Crime Scene

Bei Bei Shuai’s case means that all pregnant women are potential criminals and that their bodies can be treated as potential crime scenes. How the “pro-life” movement is threatening to imprison a depressed woman for up to 45 years for attempting suicide.

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Women’s Lives Are Worth More Than “But, Hey….”

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A Mississippi legislator doesn’t worry about dangerous abortions, because at least they’ve stood up for “moral values.”

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