How A Lawsuit From Mississippi’s Lone Licensed Abortion Clinic Led To The Supreme Court Case Of A Generation

In March 2018, Governor Phil Bryant (R-MS) enacted an abortion ban similar to those on the books in many European countries, saying that abortion clinics in Mississippi would be barred from aborting pre-born babies after 15 weeks of pregnancy. 

But the ban, called the Gestational Age Act, never went into effect — Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Mississippi’s only licensed abortion clinic, sued to stop it.