mississippi takes effect on sunday. tonight, the owner of the state s only clinic said her doctors tried to get admitting privileges to hospitals just as soon as the governor signed the bill. they have applied to five hospitals within 30 miles of the lone clinic in the state. they have not been given those privileges anywhere. and everybody knew they wouldn t. the last clinic in mississippi turned to a federal court for help. they asked the court to block the new law. in the countkunlcountry when constitutionally tlitenned right are threatened by the action of the state government, we count on the federal government to step in and stop the government from doing that. we have seen that with school integration and voting rights. here with this nationally protected right, the answer democrats on a court in jackson, mississip mississippi. the clinic s owner tells us, if the court decides anything, she will open her business on monday, if only to answer the phone. she said she doubts her do
court for help. they asked the court to block the new law. in the country when constitutional rights are threatened by the action of the state government, we count on the federal government to step in and stop the state from doing that. we have seen that with school integration and voting rights. here with this constitutionally protected right, the answer depends on a court in jackson, mississippi. the clinic s owner tells us, if the court decides anything, she will open her business on monday, if only to answer the phone. she said she doubts her doctors will be willing to take the risk of breaking the law and going to prison in order to keep providing what is supposed to be the constitutionally protected right to an abortion in this country. and if that happens, the state will have ended something that the nation says no state has a right to end. watch this this weekend, the law is set to go into effect july 1st if the court does not act. on