Mississippi Abortion Clinic Anticipates More Restrictions

JACKSON, Miss. — The owner of Mississippi’s only abortion clinic says she expects legislators to keep trying to put new restrictions on the facility and the procedure, regardless of how a federal judge rules in a fight over a new state law.

Jackson Women’s Health Organization employees spent Thursday scheduling appointments for women seeking abortions. Owner Diane Derzis says it was a normal administrative day. Doctors do abortions there two or three days a week.

Because there were no patients, there were also few people praying or protesting outside under rainy skies.

Judge Daniel P. Jordan III heard arguments Wednesday about the clinic’s request to extend his temporary hold on a law putting new regulations on the clinic’s physicians. Jordan hasn’t indicated when he might rule on the request.

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  • 99 Problems (JAY-Z)

    Eric Fehrnstrom, senior campaign adviser for Mitt Romney, a href=”http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/06/03/494238/fehrnstrom-shiny-objects-women/” target=”_hplink”said on Sunday/a that issues pertaining to women’s reproductive rights, such as abortion and birth control, were “shiny objects” meant to distract voters from the real issues.

    “Mitt Romney is pro-life,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “He’ll govern as a pro-life president, but you’re going to see the Democrats use all sorts of shiny objects to distract people’s attention from the Obama performance on the economy. This is not a social issue election.”

  • Talk (Coldplay)

    The Senate will vote Thursday on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would expand and strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and make it illegal for employers to punish women for bringing up pay disparity issues.

    Dana Perino, a Fox News contributor and former press secretary for President George W. Bush, a href=”http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/30/perino-equal-pay-issue-is-a-distraction-for-just-48-hours/” target=”_hplink”called the equal pay issue/a “a distraction” from the country’s real financial problems last week.

    “Well, it’s just yet another distraction of dealing with the major financial issues that the country should be dealing with,” Perino said. “This is not a job creator.”

  • Just My Imagination (The Temptations)

    Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), whose home state’s legislature recently defunded Planned Parenthood and voted to pass a bill that would allow employers to deny women birth control coverage, a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/john-mccain-war-on-women_n_1455591.html” target=”_hplink”delivered a floor speech/a in which he insisted that the war on women is something imaginary for Democrats to “sputter about.”

    “My friends, this supposed ‘War on Women’ or the use of similarly outlandish rhetoric by partisan operatives has two purposes, and both are purely political in their purpose and effect: The first is to distract citizens from real issues that really matter and the second is to give talking heads something to sputter about when they appear on cable television,” he said.

  • Butterfly Fly Away (Miley Billy Ray Cyrus)

    Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tried to trivialize concerns about the legislative “war on women” by comparing it to a “war on caterpillars.”

    “If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we’d have problems with caterpillars,” Priebus a href=”http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-05/priebus-says-gender-battle-as-fictonal-as-caterpillar-war.html” target=”_hplink”said in an April interview/a on Bloomberg Television. “It’s a fiction.”

  • Distraction (Angels And Airwaves)

    Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Sarah Steelman (R) took heat from her opponents in May when she contended that Democratic lawmakers’ focus on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act was “a distraction” from the issues they should be dealing with instead.

    “I think it’s unfortunate that the Democrats have made a political football out of this thing, which I think is what they keep doing to distract from real problems that are facing our nation,” she said in an interview with St. Louis Public Radio.

  • We Don’t Care (Kanye West)

    South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) defended the Republican Party in April for going after insurance coverage for contraception by arguing that women don’t actually care about contraception.

    “Women don’t care about contraception,” she said on ABC’s The View. “They care about jobs and the economy and raising their families and all those other things.”

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