Rhetoric May Save Clinic (Mississippi)
State lawmakers and executives may have bitten themselves in the behind when they opened their mouths to boast about effectively ending abortion in the state with House Bill 1390.
The law, signed by Gov. Phil Bryant in April, requires doctors at abortion clinics to be registered OB/GYNs and have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, along with other state Republicans, boasted about the law closing the state's only abortion clinic, located in Jackson, and eliminating legal abortion in the state.
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Mississippi College law professor Matt Steffey said examined the TRO and the law this morning. He said that openly admitting that the real purpose of the law is to eliminate abortion, not to make women's health safer, may not have been a good legal decision for the pro-life camp.
"It certainly helps the plaintiffs make their case," Steffey said. "Many of these (efforts) directed for the explicit purpose of shutting down the lone remaining abortion clinic are going to immediately be challenged. Those challenges are going to be difficult to set aside."
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2012/jul/02/rhetoric-may-kill-clinic-bill/
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Very important case! 
in Mississippi like to crow when they have subverted the Constitution with one of their laws. It makes legal challenges so much easier. As a side note, it's also funny that a Mississippi College law professor is commenting about the new law's inefficacy. Mississippi College is run by the Southern Baptists.
