second class citizens (once again)

i've said it a million times and i'll say it again. i'm NOT PRO-ABORTION. I'M PRO-CHOICE. education and more education please. ABSTINENCE DOESN'T WORK. we as women have the RIGHT to have an abortion if we so choose. don't let them take that right from us EVER. as joan crawford was portrayed as saying (granted, about something else) NO MORE WIRE HANGERS
(and except in a life-saving emergency, i support a doctor's right to NOT perform an abortion based on her/his religious or personal beliefs. what i DON'T support is them being harassed OUT of it)

Abortion clinic faces new hurdle
"We have no intentions of leaving," Women's Health Organization official says
By Julie Goodman mailto:Goodmanjgoodman@clarionledger.com

Mississippi's only abortion clinic is waiting to hear whether it will be granted a new state certification to continue performing its full range of procedures.The requirement to meet higher standards came after an aggressive push by anti-abortion advocates, who are trying to shut down the clinic."We believe that if they comply and the clinic is safer for women ... at the very least, Mississippi has made the back-alley abortion clinic — or the front-alley abortion clinic as we call them — safer for women but not for unborn children," said Pro-Life Mississippi President Terri Herring.

The Jackson Women's Health Organization, which treats more than 3,000 women a year statewide, said a setback would not mean defeat and may only put the issue back in front of a judge. The clinic, which is still operating, risks having to scale back the kinds of abortion it can perform."We have no intention of leaving and we intend to continue to provide the services that we're providing," said Susan Hill, president of the North Carolina-based National Women's Health Organization. "It won't be easy, but we're staying."Earlier this year, a federal judge knocked down a recently enacted state law that would have barred early second-trimester abortions at the clinic...........

and from msnbc Abortions rare in S. Dakota. Will others follow?

StateÂ’s laws, social mores offer possible glimpse at life after Roe

By Evelyn Nieves
The Washington Post
Updated: 1:25 a.m. ET Dec. 27, 2005
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The waiting room at the Planned Parenthood clinic was packed by the time the doctor arrived — an hour late because of weather delays in Minneapolis.
It was clinic day, the one day a week when the only facility in South Dakota that provides abortions could take in patients. This time it was a Wednesday. The week before it was a Monday.
The day changes depending on the schedules of four doctors from Minnesota who fly here on a rotating basis to perform abortions, something no doctor in South Dakota will do. The last doctor in South Dakota to perform abortions stopped about eight years ago; the consensus in the medical community is that offering the procedure is not worth the stigma of being branded a baby killer.
South Dakota, those on both sides of the abortion debate agree, has become one of the hardest states in the country in which to obtain an abortion. One of three states in the country to have only one abortion provider -- North Dakota and Mississippi are the others -- South Dakota, largely because of a strong antiabortion lobby, is also becoming a leading national laboratory for testing the limits of state laws restricting abortion, both opponents and advocates of abortion rights say.