Abortion in Mississippi
[7] In 2017, Georgia, Ohio, Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi have among the highest rates of infant mortality in the United States.
[7] Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act was rejected by Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Missouri.
According to Georgetown University Center for Children and Families research professor Adam Searing, "The uninsured rate for women of childbearing age is nearly twice as high in states that have not expanded Medicaid.
Six states — Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas — accounted for most cases.
[16] Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Ohio all had statutes in 2007 that required specific informed consent on abortion but also, by statute, allowing medical doctors performing abortions to disassociate themselves from the anti-abortion materials they were required to provide to their female patients.
[23][24] Additionally, there is no heart present in the embryo; it would more accurately be called a cluster of cells with electrical activity.
[21] In 2012, the Mississippi State Legislature passed a law that required abortion clinics to have doctors on staff with hospital admitting privileges.
[41] SB 2116, by Sen. Angela Burks Hill was referred to the Public Health and Welfare Committee on January 11, 2019.
[42] HB 732, by Rep. Chris Brown was referred to the Public Health and Human Services Committee on January 17, 2019.
[46] In 2020, a law was enacted in Mississippi banning abortions based on the sex, race, or genetic abnormality of the fetus.
[3] In the 2011 election season, Mississippi placed an amendment on the ballot that redefines how the state viewed abortion.
[48] The US Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade ruling meant individual states could no longer regulate abortion in the first trimester.
The order was to stay in place until U.S. District Judge Daniel Porter Jordan III could review newly drafted rules on how the Mississippi Department of Health would administer a new abortion law.
[49] On March 20, 2018, a federal district court in Mississippi enacted a temporary, 10-day ban of the enforcement of the Gestational Age Act due to its conflict with the established rights of the woman under Roe v.
[26] In 2012, Jackson Women's Health almost closed as a result of a new state law being passed that required the clinic to have medical staff with hospital admitting privileges.
[26] In 2017, there was one Planned Parenthood clinic, which did not offer abortion services, in a state with a population of 694,045 women aged 15–49.
[30] North Dakota, Wyoming, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia were the only six states as of July 21, 2017, not to have a Planned Parenthood clinic that offered abortion services.
[62] In 2024, Planned Parenthood Southeast closed the Mississippi clinic, citing an emergency provider shortage.
[65] In 2014, 59% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be illegal in all or most cases while 36% believed it should be legal.
out-of-state residents Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund assists women, primarily African American women, "offer[ing] financial assistance and practical support to persons seeking abortion as well as free emergency contraception, community based comprehensive sex education and fighting for reproductive justice in Mississippi".
[74] Women from the state participated in marches supporting abortion rights as part of a #StoptheBans movement in May 2019.
[75] Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, abortion rights protests were held in Jackson,[76] Gulfport,[77] and Hattiesburg.
