The lone abortion clinic in Mississippi may have to close its doors in early January if a federal judge allows a state law to go into effect that would regulate the clinic out of existence.
The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a motion in a federal court on Wednesday asking a judge to block the implementation of a law passed by Republican state lawmakers earlier this year that requires all abortion physicians in Mississippi to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The judge partially blocked the law in July, giving the Jackson Women's Health Organization six months -- until Jan. 6, 2013 -- to comply with the law without legal retaliation from the state. But since then, both primary physicians at the clinic have applied for and been denied admitting privileges by all seven local hospitals.
According to letters quoted by the Center, the hospitals rejected the physicians because their medical practice "is inconsistent with this Hospital’s policies and practices as concerns abortion and, in particular, elective abortions" and that admitting them "would lead to both an internal and external disruption of the Hospital’s function and business within this community."
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