by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 26, 2012 - 8:38 am

Is this really what the state of Mississippi signed on for when they elected Bryant?

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 25, 2012 - 9:21 am

The attempt to shut down the only clinic in Mississippi that provides abortions is likely to produce a lawsuit, and one clinic board member is already experiencing repercussions.

by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check

April 20, 2012 - 3:12 am

Logic tells us that for the teen birth rate to go down without the abortion rate going up, fewer teens have to have sex or more teens have to use contraception. Data tells us that it’s a little bit of both.  But what policies, programs, social issues, and cultural shifts are behind this?

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 16, 2012 - 2:28 pm

Gov. Bryant said he wants to make the state “abortion-free.” Now he’s signing a bill that could be the first step.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 11, 2012 - 8:00 am

There is a lot of confusion about 20-week abortion bans, and for good reason. Not only do they pick arbitrary dates based on medically-disproven claims of “fetal pain,” at least one is so mixed up it shows that “fetal pain” is not even the basis of the ban.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 10, 2012 - 9:07 pm

If you can’t pass a bill through one chamber, tack it onto a different bill in another chamber.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 5, 2012 - 8:38 pm

If the governor signs the bill into law, he can expect to face a lawsuit from the sole clinic in the state.

by Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women

April 5, 2012 - 8:04 am

Citizens in Mississippi, once, and Colorado, twice, have resoundingly rejected so called “personhood” measures that would have established the “pre-born” as separate legal persons under the law. There is increasing evidence that when people understand the broad reach of such measures, they vote them down. But what happens when prosecutors and judges misuse their power and “pass” such measures in disguise?

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 4, 2012 - 6:47 pm

He says his bill is to stop “back-room” abortions by closing the only clinic in the state.

by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check

April 4, 2012 - 7:29 am

Only one of three abortion bills made it past a committee pocket veto, but that doesn’t mean they won’t become law.