NARAL Terms Mississippi Among "Worst States" for Abortion Restrictions

Jackson, MS, Clarion-Ledger ^ | 07-14-03 | Goodman, Julie

[Theodore R.]

Groups: State chips at choice Abortion rights group says state among worst for "anti-choice restrictions"

Mississippi has few doctors who perform abortions. It has no Planned Parenthood, and it has only a handful of vocal abortion-rights advocates. It's hard to find a state lawmaker who believes in a woman's right to choose

[Theodore R.]

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[Redbob]

Sometimes being at the bottom of someone's list is a good thing, eh, Mississippi?

[detsaoT]

I'm still trying to find a bad point in this list. Mississippi ought to be very proud of herself for this.

:) ttt

[TheBattman]

Mississippi has few doctors who perform abortions. It has no Planned Parenthood, and it has only a handful of vocal abortion-rights advocates. It's hard to find a state lawmaker who believes in a woman's right to choose — ............ Mississippi does, however, have an active Right to Life organization, one that has worked to restrict the legal procedure in the state. Anti-abortion advocates have worked to ban public funding for abortions and to use "Choose Life" license plates to help disperse funds to centers that advise women against abortion. They are now fixed on a move — however unrealistic — that could force doctors to pay for post-abortion complications of Medicaid recipients.

Wow - sounds like Mississippi has several redeeming qualities! Go Mississippi!

[bourbon]

BTW, I know the C-L's original headline for this article was really lame, but the protocol on FR presently is not to alter headlines. This helps save bandwidith by preventing double-posting. The only reason I mention this is b/c I almost posted this article myself. Luckily, I checked the MS forum before posting it b/c it may not have come up on my search. I just thought you might want to know.

"The trend there is obviously a worrisome trend because it means that the anti-choice forces have done a good job at infiltrating state government," Gallagher said.

For these NARAL wackos, winning an election = "infiltrating state government." It is simply amazing how anti-democratic the abortion rights groups have become.

[bourbon]

(((MS PING))))

[Theodore R.]

The original headline on the abortion article in the Jackson, MS, Clarion-Ledger, bourbon, just made no sense. It may have been understandable from a MS standpoint, but for this forum it would have been impossible to make out, it seemed to me.

[wardaddy]

Poor NARAL....I'm so sad for them.

[bourbon]

that's okay. It doesn't really bother me. I just wanted to tell you about the posting protocol in case you didn't already know about it. There are some folks on FR who are real sticklers when it comes to abiding by the "rules," and they'll hammer you on threads if you don't follow them yourself.

As an accomodation to the "rules," I typically use some parentheticals to add info. to the actual headline when the headline alone wouldn't make sense to other FR users. For this article, I probably would have done this: "Groups: State [Mississippi] chips at choice [(ahem)...abortion]." As I said, this is a particularly lame headline, so it's difficult to improve upon. If only the C-L would let us be in charge of writing their headlines, there wouldn't be any problem, would there? :-)

[vetvetdoug]

Mississippi has enough trouble keeping physicians let alone keeping abortion doctors. NARAL,NAMBLA, and NOW haven't got a bone to pick here, they need to go to San Francisco where they can get someone who g.... a s...

[Guillermo]

Amazing.

Not only should women be able to abort at any time for any reason, but there has to be a clinic on every block and a crowd to shout for their rights, for a woman to properly "enjoy" Roe.

[WKB]

Hoo ray for the great state of Missippy

[mwyounce]

Glad to hear we're doing something right in Mississippi!