By: Rich Polley
In Mississippi, Jackson Women’s
Health Organization is the only clinic proving abortions and is facing potential
foreclosure.
Mississippi House Bill 1390
requires that all physicians who perform abortions have admitting privileges at
a local hospital and be board certified in obstetrics and gynecology. Current physicians
have no problem being board certified in obstetrics and gynecology, because they
all are. The piece of missing rail road is that only one physician has
admitting privileges at local hospitals.
To increase the problem these local
hospitals have the right to refuse admitting privileges to physicians and to
top it off two hospitals in Jackson Mississippi have Christian affiliations. So
I don’t think anything including the subject of abortion will be very
supportive in the hospitals.
Many fear the return of basement or
back-alley abortions with the dreaded coat hanger. “I find it terrifying when I
see politicians like Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant working to cut off women's
access to abortion by shutting down the health centers that safely provide them
to women,” wrote Tamara Tuine, writer for the Root.
"I have a good friend who comes to mind a lot lately, now that it seems barely 24 hours can pass without the news reporting on some new bill or state law aimed at eliminating women's access to safe, legal abortion.
ReplyDeleteYears ago, I went to a Planned Parenthood health center with this friend, who had to end her pregnancy due to health problems that could have killed her. She had cysts that caused very heavy bleeding and made the pregnancy far too risky to carry to term. Planned Parenthood was the only option for her to get the medical care she needed to save her life.
The prospect of my friend dying was beyond frightening. She was a young, vital woman with a passion for life and so much left to accomplish. Fortunately, she also had a provider to turn to for this medical care. I don't know what she would have done if that option had not been available to her." - Tamara Tunie