Mississippi women's health clinic drops challenge of state's near-ban on abortions
JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi abortion clinic that was at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v.
Wade ended a lawsuit Tuesday in which it had sought to block the state from enforcing a law that bans most abortions.Jackson Women's Health Organization dropped its litigation a day after clinic owner Diane Derzis told The Associated Press that she sold the facility and had no intention to reopen it, even if a state court allowed her to do so."If the clinic is not in a position to reopen in Mississippi, it no longer has a basis to pursue this case in the courts," Rob McDuff, a Mississippi Center for Justice attorney who was among those representing the clinic, said in a statement.
Derzis said the clinic’s furniture and equipment have been moved to a new abortion clinic she will open soon in Las Cruces, New Mexico.Court battles over access to abortion are playing out in multiple states following the Supreme Court's June 24 ruling, which gave states the authority to set their own laws on abortion.
On Tuesday, West Virginia’s only abortion clinic resumed scheduling patients for abortions, after a judge ruled in its favor.
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