Nice little right you have there …
by digby
Sure, you’ve got a constitutional right to abortion. But nobody’s guaranteeing you access to it:
Jackson Women’s Health Organization — the only abortion clinic in the entire state of Mississippi — has been fighting to remain open after Republican legislators, aiming to force the clinic to close, passed a restrictive regulation requiring its doctors to secure hospital admitting privileges. A Bush-appointed federal judge temporarily blocked the measure in July to give the clinic’s doctors more time to apply for privileges at area hospitals, but that order expires in early January. And so far, all seven hospitals in the area have denied privileges to the doctors.
The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a motion Wednesday asking a judge to stop the law from being implemented — and forcing the clinic to stop providing abortion care — before January 6, 2013. If it closes, women in Mississippi will no longer have access to abortion in the state.
This was the way it went back in Jim Crow, too. “Sure, you have civil rights in theory. But we don’t have to enforce them.” But then states have more rights than individuals do in our country so I suppose that’s just the way it goes.
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