The rise of the abortion cowboy

By Becca Andrews
October 17, 2023

The doctor wants a pair of boots. Not just any boots, either. A specific brand of cowboy boot, handcrafted in Texas. Boots that adorn the feet of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, for instance, and singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton.

We’re at the airport in El Paso, after a seven-hour journey from a small regional airport in the Southeast to a major metropolitan airport to, finally, this airport, about an hour from the abortion clinic in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where Dr. Aaron Campbell will work for a couple of days before flying back home. Campbell, who asked that his precise travel route not be published for safety reasons, has made this journey 10 times in the last year. But today, before he starts his rotation, he’s got plans. He wants proper cowboy boots and a cowboy hat to complete the look.

Continued: https://www.reckon.news/news/2023/10/the-rise-of-the-abortion-cowboy.html

This doctor provides abortions at Mississippi’s last clinic. Now, she’s preparing for her final shift.

by Isabelle Taft
May 10, 2022

Dr. Cheryl Hamlin added a line to her standard message for patients during their counseling sessions at Mississippi’s only abortion clinic last week.

“As you hopefully have heard, the Supreme Court is probably going to overrule Roe v. Wade, which means this clinic will close,” she said to dozens of people who had traveled to Jackson from as far away as Texas for an abortion.

Continued: https://mississippitoday.org/2022/05/10/mississippi-doctor-abortion-clinic/

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Thousands demonstrate at Supreme Court as justices consider historic abortion case

The court heard the most serious challenge to Roe vs. Wade in 30 years.

By Libby Cathey and Sarah Donaldson
1 December 2021

Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court of the United States on Wednesday as it heard arguments in the most serious legal challenge to Roe vs. Wade in 30 years, sparking passion on both sides of the heated abortion battle.

More demonstrations were expected later Wednesday in what turned into a dramatic scene of dueling rallies as the court considered the most significant abortion rights case in decades.

Continued: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/thousands-rally-supreme-court-justices-abortion-rights/story?id=81478636

USA – Supreme Court set to take up all-or-nothing abortion fight

By MARK SHERMAN
Nov 28, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion. The justices can either reaffirm the constitutional right to an abortion or wipe it away altogether.

Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that declared a nationwide right to abortion, is facing its most serious challenge in 30 years in front of a court with a 6-3 conservative majority that has been remade by three appointees of President Donald Trump.

Continued: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-us-supreme-court-voting-rights-samuel-alito-07ecdb3661032c4c6ececd4d07c70655

The last abortion clinic in Mississippi is at the center of a Supreme Court case that could end Roe v. Wade

If the Supreme Court upholds Mississippi’s 15-week ban, the decision would almost certainly weaken Roe v. Wade. In Mississippi and beyond, the impact would be tremendous.

Shefali Luthra, Health Reporter
November 22, 2021

JACKSON, MS — The Pink House wasn’t Tiara’s first choice. It wasn’t even her second. But it was one of the only places that could help her.

Tiara, who withheld her full name for privacy, lives in Beaumont, Texas. She and her husband have three children: a 2-year-old and 1-year-old twins. She works and is in charge of the majority of parenting duties with her kids.

Continued: https://19thnews.org/2021/11/abortion-clinic-mississippi-supreme-court/

Advocates fear Texas and Mississippi abortion laws will worsen the Black maternal health crisis

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN
Mon October 11, 2021

(CNN) Briana McLennan was 19 years old and at least eight weeks pregnant when she had to make a tough decision: get an abortion and continue with her plans of moving to Atlanta for college, or stay home in Texas and figure out a way to raise a baby with no job and no money.

McLennan decided to get the abortion with some funding help from the Texas Equal Access Fund.

Continued: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/us/abortion-ban-impact-on-black-women/index.html

The Mississippi clinic at the center of the fight to end abortion in America

The state’s last abortion clinic, known as the 'Pink House,’ is at the heart of a Supreme Court case that could severely restrict
abortion access for millions of largely poor women.

By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux and Ariana Eunjung Cha
Aug. 24, 2021

JACKSON, Miss. — The battle plays out in dueling soundtracks.

On one part of the sidewalk, longtime antiabortion demonstrator Coleman Boyd
belts out a steady stream of Christian music, with lyrics about Jesus’s love
for the unborn. “Your precious baby is going to be murdered in this place,”
Boyd, a physician, preaches between songs.

Continued: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/mississippi-abortion-law/?itid=mr_4

We’re Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic, and We’re Braced for the Worst

June 9, 2021
By Shannon Brewer

JACKSON, Miss. — I could see the pain on the patient’s face as soon as she walked through the door of the abortion clinic where I work. She was unbearably sick from pregnancy complications and had been in and out of the hospital for weeks. She had just driven almost 200 miles to reach us because there are so few abortion clinics in the South. Like most of the patients who come through my clinic, she thought she’d be able to get an abortion that day.

I had to tell her that under Mississippi law, patients like her cannot get an abortion on their first visit to a clinic. Instead, they have to sit through state-mandated “counseling” — visits that can take several hours. Then they have to come back another day to get the pills for their medication abortion or have their procedure. Often, patients are not able to make that second appointment until the following week or later because we’re booked up or because they can’t make arrangements for child care or get time off work again.

Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/opinion/abortion-mississippi-supreme-court.html

Anti-abortion movement bullish as legal campaign reaches US supreme court

A case that could undermine the landmark Roe v Wade ruling and a punitive Texas law are the culmination of a decades-long push

Jessica Glenza, Reuters Tue 25 May 2021

The anti-abortion movement in the US is emboldened and optimistic after the supreme court announced it would hear a direct challenge to laws underpinning the right to abortion in the US, and Texas enacted a law intended to ban abortion after six weeks.

The high court decision to take up the case and the Texas move come during the most hostile year for reproductive rights in the nearly half-century since pregnant people won the constitutional right to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy in the landmark 1973 case Roe v Wade.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/25/anti-abortion-movement-bullish-us-supreme-court

Mississippi’s ‘Pink House’ ground zero in U.S. abortion rights fight

Gabriella Borter, Reuters
May 23, 2021

JACKSON — For eight years, Derenda Hancock has ushered women from their cars to the doors of Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, donning a rainbow vest as she shields them from protesters waving religious pamphlets and shouting “turn back!” through bullhorns.

Hancock, a 62-year-old part-time waitress, grew accustomed to repeated attempts by lawmakers and anti-abortion activists to block access to abortions at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization where she leads the clinic’s volunteer escorts.

Continued: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/crime-pmn/mississippis-pink-house-ground-zero-in-u-s-abortion-rights-fight