State GOP Pushes For ‘Abortion-Free’ Mississippi
The 2012 Mississippi legislature is considering nearly two dozen bills and constitutional amendments all aimed at limiting abortion in a state that already has one of the lowest abortion rates in the country and just one abortion clinic.
Emboldened by the first Republican majorities in both chambers of the legislature since Reconstruction, anti-abortion advocates see a chance to limit abortion further and possibly ban it in Mississippi.
Kaiser Health, Mississippi Public Broadcasting and NPR
3/2/12
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