Mississippi Implements New Pro-Family Measures After Governor Signs Bills
Legislation is part of a ‘New Pro-Life Agenda’ that Mississippi is pushing following the overturning of Roe v. Wade last year.
Legislation is part of a ‘New Pro-Life Agenda’ that Mississippi is pushing following the overturning of Roe v. Wade last year.
Local newspaper says it is the deadliest tornado in the Magnolia State in at least 50 years.
The legislation bans any surgery that is designed to alter or remove a healthy physical or anatomical characteristic or feature on a person’s body to make that feature or characteristic resemble the opposite sex unless the person is at least 18 years old; it also prohibits facial surgeries, voice surgeries, hair reconstruction, or any other aesthetic procedure designed to make the child appear as though he or she is the opposite sex.
Bishop Joseph Kopacz of the Diocese of Jackson urged prayers for a speedy resolution to the water crisis.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said Thursday that now that legal abortion is banned in the state, it must act in a special way to support women and families.
Legal scholars see the court’s reluctance to overturn past rulings, even highly controversial ones, as Mississippi’s greatest hurdle.
Justice Samuel Alito told Julie Rikelman, litigation director of the Center for Reproductive Rights, “The fetus has an interest in having life, and that doesn’t change.”
The high court faces an important fall term, but critics have also put the high court on trial — and the justices are fighting back.
When Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization heads to the Supreme Court, pro-life advocates hope the outcome will increase states' ability to regulate abortion.
“Every human life is valuable, and Mississippi’s law is a commonsense step toward protecting unborn children and their mothers from the harms of late-term abortion,” Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Denise Harle stated on Monday.
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