Mississippi is just hours from banning abortion in most instances, but an eleventh-hour lawsuit before a special state judge could at least temporarily delay the “trigger law” from going into effect.
A Jackson Womens Health Organization worker informing public the clinic is open in Jackson, Friday, June 24, 2022. After 50 years, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in a 5-4 vote.Start your day with the latest headlines. Sign up for The Today and get new stories in your inbox every weekday morning.Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.
Based on that 1998 ruling, Jackson attorney Rob McDuff asked Chancery Judge Debbra Halford of Franklin County to issue an injunction preventing laws that would ban most abortions in Mississippi from taking effect. McDuff and Hillary Schneller, senior staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, represented Jackson Women’s Health Organization in the lawsuit.
“They depend on Roe and Casey. There is no Roe and Casey anymore. And there is no Fordice,” Stewart said referring to the 1998 state Supreme Court ruling titled Pro-Choice Mississippi v. Kirk Fordice. But on Tuesday in the hearing attended by about 50 spectators with a handful of protesters outside the courthouse, McDuff told the chancery judge that the state Supreme Court ruling would supersede the laws and she did not have the authority to ignore Mississippi’s highest court.Stewart did not try to argue that the 1998 ruling did not say abortion was a right under the state Constitution.
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