Wednesday was the last day the Jackson Women’s Health Organization was legally allowed to perform abortions in Mississippi.
after her family frantically tried to find her care when she became short of breath. The hospital only a few minutes from her home had shuttered its emergency room roughly five years before. The county’s strained ambulance service took almost 30 minutes to arrive.
“No one’s taking care of them,” Hamlin said of the women living in Mississippi’s health care deserts. “They’re people who are trying hard … but they’re really poor, and they don’t have options.” “I’m sure by the end of the day, I won’t be able to hold it much longer,” she said. “Got to get through it before we can lose it.”
But he expressed doubt that Wednesday would be the final chapter in the fight over abortion rights in Mississippi — and the nation.
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