Thu Nov 25, 2021 – 4:33 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — While the mainstream press has taken pains to present the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming review of a Mississippi abortion law as a threat to “women’s healthcare,” significantly less attention has been devoted to the history of the so-called health facility bringing the suit.
Next week, the Court will begin hearing oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which concerns Mississippi’s HB 1510 law banning abortions from being committed past 15 weeks for any reason other than physical medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormalities. After its enactment in 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals deemed it unconstitutional because of an “unbroken line dating to Roe v. Wade,” the 1973 ruling which imposed on all 50 states a “right” to pre-viability abortion.
The plaintiff in the case, Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO), is the last abortion facility in the Magnolia State. It also has a record of safety issues and noncompliance with state law longer than a decade.
According to one report from Operation Rescue, in 2009, the Mississippi Department of Health found 18 different violations at JWHO, including failures to train all employees in
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