The fight to close Mississippi’s lone abortion clinic took another step today, as lawyers entered a federal court of appeals on Monday.

Mississippi's lone abortion clinic will stay open for now, thanks to a federal judge who temporarily blocked a law that would've closed it down because he's concerned that it may be unconstitutional to force women to leave the state in search of legal abortion. Ya think?

And so it begins.

Loose lips sink abortion eliminating ships. Erm, laws. Today, a federal judge temporarily extended an injunction blocking the enforcement of a state law designed to close the state's only abortion clinic in part because politicians who vocally supported the law couldn't fucking shut up about how the law wasn't about…

Good news for the uteruses of Mississippi: There has been a small complication in the relentless Republican drive to make their state abortion-free. Yesterday a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a new law that would have shut down the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the only abortion clinic…

If you live in Mississippi and were hoping that if you ended up pregnant when you didn't want to be you could do something about it, better pencil your last minute abortion in now — the Senate has just passed a bill designed to target the state's last remaining abortion clinic.