United States | Legal and rare

What would happen if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade?

Mississippi offers a glimpse

|JACKSON

A SMILING WOMAN stands in the driveway leading to Jackson Women’s Health Organisation, the only abortion clinic in Mississippi. Beside her, a large sign reads: “Bags for clinic patients here”. Though volunteers dressed in “clinic escort” vests gesticulate to drivers that they should ignore her, most stop and are handed a gift bag. Inside are images showing a fetus as it develops and a note assuring women: “You can be a great mama!”

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