We told you about this the other day when Mississippi’s legislature passed a ban on abortion after 15 weeks. One of the things that make this bill so restrictive is that it doesn’t contain exemptions for rape and incest.
Well the Mississippi governor just signed it and now the bill is law!
Mississippi governor signs bill banning most abortions in the state after 15 weeks, effective immediately. It's the most restrictive such law in the US. https://t.co/Qg50LzlUtp
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 19, 2018
Here’s more:
Mississippi’s governor has signed the nation’s tightest abortion restrictions into law.
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1510 on Monday afternoon. It becomes law immediately and bans most abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation. Bryant has frequently said he wants Mississippi to be the “safest place in America for an unborn child.”
The law’s only exceptions are if a fetus has health problems making it “incompatible with life” outside of the womb at full term, or if a pregnant woman’s life or a “major bodily function” is threatened by pregnancy. Pregnancies resulting from rape and incest aren’t exempted.
Abortion rights advocates are calling the law unconstitutional because it limits abortion before fetuses can live outside the womb. The owner of Mississippi’s only abortion clinic opposes the law and has pledged to sue.
As stated above, of course this bill will be in the courts before you can blink an eye, where some activist judge will try to put the kibosh on it. But I’m sure that was anticipated by the legislature who probably wants this bill to go before the Supreme Court.