Mississippi's sole abortion clinic wins federal court stay

[cali]

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Mississippi from revoking the license of the state's only abortion clinic.

U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III extended an injunction he issued several months ago, which blocks the state from closing the clinic while it tries to fulfill a 2012 state law.

The law requires all OB-GYNs who do abortions at Jackson Women's Health Organization to have privileges to admit patients to a local hospital.

Jordan's ruling comes three days before the state Department of Health was scheduled to hold a license revocation hearing for the clinic over its acknowledged inability to get the admitting privileges. Now the administrative hearing won't be held, said health department spokeswoman Liz Sharlot.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/16/us-usa-abortion-mississippi-idUSBRE93F07120130416

In state after state, the federal courts are the only thing keeping clinics open in the face of TRAP laws.

[Gravitycollapse]

1. K&R

[Recursion]

2. That one's especially dangerous because it *sounds* reasonable...

... if you don't know how hospitals work. I weep for my home state...

[cali]

3. right. and it couldn't be more unreasonable

It's not as if a patient at the Jackson clinic wouldn't be admitted to a local hospital should she need to. And it's not as if the hospital wouldn't allow the clinic doctor to stay in the loop. Two of the hospitals in the area wouldn't even give the clinic applications for admitting privileges. This is solely to shut down the clinic. There's a race on to see which fucking nut case state can be the first to shutter all abortion clinics.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. And every one of these new laws is supposedly enacted

for the "protection" of women.

[idwiyo]

5. K&R

[davidpdx]

6. Hopefully it will hold on appeal

Because I'm sure they will try to appeal the stay.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. I'm glad to see this.

I think Mississippians want abortion to remain legal in the state. We voted down the Personhood Amendment, but a majority of teabaggers got elected to the legislature and they've ignored that vote. Plenty of us welcome federal intervention to keep that clinic in Jackson open, if that's what it takes.