Mississippi’s last abortion clinic faces tense final days

A large, bearded man with wraparound sunglasses stands at the entrance of the Jackson Women’s Health Organisation, Mississippi’s last abortion clinic, and screams at a woman as she is driven into the clinic's car park. 

“This is murder,” he yells. “You’re going to perish without the mercy of God.”

He has draped a towel over his head to protect himself from the heat and humidity that envelop Jackson at this time of year.

As he shouts Biblical scriptures, a woman wearing a rainbow-coloured jacket that reads “clinic escort” steps in front of him and holds a large mirror up to his face. On it, she has written: “You, yelling at women.”

“Do you like how you look, Allan?” she asks. The two know each other by name.

Following the US Supreme Court ruling last week that overturned Roe v Wade, a 1973 law that legalised abortion, Mississippi and other conservative states have moved quickly to enact bans on the procedure.

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