The Center for Reproductive Rights is back in federal court to prevent state officials from enforcing Mississippi's unconstitutional new law designed purposefully to regulate the state's only abortion clinic out of existence.

House Bill 1390, which was signed into law on April 16th this year and partially blocked by a federal judge in July, imposes a medically-unwarranted requirement that to legally perform abortions in the state, a physician must also be a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with admitting privileges at an area hospital. Despite the fact that all the doctors currently providing abortions to women at the Jackson Women's Health Organization are board-certified ob-gyns, the physicians responsible for the lion’s share of the clinic’s patients have not been granted privileges by any of the hospitals in the area.

According to CRR and attorneys representing the clinic and physicians, several of the hospitals refused to even process the physicians’ applications, citing the hospitals' own biased policies and practices towards abortion care as the basis for the denial.