Mississippi's only abortion clinic sues over nation's most restrictive abortion

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Source: The HILL

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.Mississippi's only abortion clinic sued state officials within an hour of the governor signing the country's most restrictive abortion ban into law, The Associated Press reported Monday.

The Jackson Women's Health Organization, along with one of the physicians that works for the clinic, sued in federal court over the ban, claiming that the measure is unconstitutional.

"Under decades of United States Supreme Court precedent, the state of Mississippi cannot ban abortion prior to viability, regardless of what exceptions are provided to the ban," the complaint reads.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) signed the ban into law earlier Monday.

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1. Here in Ohio

A court overturned our zealous conservatives' bill (signed by Kasich) banning abortion of a fetus diagnosed with Down's Syndrome for this exact reason- that a state cannot prohibit an abortion before viability for any reason. Hopefully this will be the case in Mississippi too.