reverse the preroe versus wade in america. are we at the point right now where you don t know if the clinic will be able to stay open? we have no idea whether the clinic will stay open. we are letting the patients know as well what the situation is. we hopefully, the briefs that have been filed will the judge will have an opportunity to look at those and see how this law is really a trap law. this is the only abortion clinic in the entire state of mississippi. yes, it is. if you are forced to close your doors here, what happens to women in this state? we hate to think about what s going to happen to women, and their health care, in this area in the state of mississippi. from jackson, mississippi, it s three hours. any direction that they want to go. it already places a hardship on women because mississippi really is a poor state. we ll be here to try to give them some direction and help, no matter what happens.
it s still safe. a mississippi federal judge has decided to temporarily continue blocking the state s new anti-abortion law. why was this important? well, had he not acted, it could have shut down mississippi s only abortion clinic. today was a victory. but chipping away at women s rights has become the new norm. in texas governor perry is trying to ban doctors from even talking about abortion. this year governor mcdonald became a household name after his state joined in requiring women to undergo invasive ultrasounds. mississippi s attempt is the latest example in a long list it passed a so-called trap law. that stands for targeted regulation of abortion providers. the law lives up to its name. it s a trap. mississippi s law would require anyone performing an abortion to have privileges to admit
you would never go on record talking about throwing people in jail for abortion. but this, this sounds too crazy for me to say it meter is recalibrated. that has changed, even just since 2010. jailing people for abortion is no longer a step over the line of wing nuttism, even for main stream republican retrism. main stream republican legislation. that same seen as koo koo has been happening in the great state of mississippi this year. in april, the republican governor of mississippi signed into law what is known as a trap law, t.r.a.p., in this case, stands for targeted regulation of abortion providers. and the acroinism is not an accident. new laws, new red tape and regulations that only apply to abortion providers. they re making it harder to be an abortion provider.
what we campaigned on, to say we re going to try to end abortion in mississippi. we re going to try to work to end abortion in mississippi, and this is an historic day to begin that process. signing the state s new law was a step toward a campaign promise to end abortion in mississippi. the lieutenant that was the governor, the lieutenant governor was also open and excited about using the law in mississippi to ban abortion by shutting down that clinic. it s been seven years since we got good pro life legislation passed out of the mississippi legislature. that s a bill that gives us a great opportunity to accomplish what our goal needs to be. our goal needs to be to end all abortions in mississippi. i believe the admitting privileges bill gives us the best chance to do that. the admitting privileges bill. the new t.r.a.p. law. republicans admit they think it s their best chance at banning abortion in an american state.
but this, this sounds too crazy for me to say it meter is recalibrated. that has changed, even just since 2010. jailing people for abortion is no longer a step over the line of wing-nuttism, even for main stream republican rhetoric. main stream republican legislation. that same seen as coo coo has been happening in the great state of mississippi this year. in april, the republican governor of mississippi signed into law what is known as a t.r.a.p. law. t.r.a.p., in this case, stands for targeted regulation of abortion providers. and the acronym is not an accident. new laws, new red tape and regulations that only apply to abortion providers. they re making it harder to be an abortion provider. they re laws that are designed to and intend to shut clinics down.