Mississippi: Proposed Abortion Ban's Fate to Be Decided Later Today
Friday March 31, 2006
Category: Abortion
The Mississippi abortion ban has already died in conference once only to be brought back to life by a deadline extension, but the Mississippi legislative session ends for real on Sunday and the prospects of the abortion ban passing both houses of the legislature now seem extremely remote. As Planned Parenthood's statewide Grassroots Coordinator reported to ProChoiceMississippi yesterday:
I just spoke with Representative Moak, who told me that the House has absolutely no plans to meet in conference with the Senate on the abortion ban. According to Moak, the House conferees have done everything they are going to do. With both Moak and Holland stating that they will not participate further in the conference, the bill is dead, provided that the Senators do not decide to sign on to the House's conference report.
The Mississippi abortion ban has already died in conference once only to be brought back to life by a deadline extension, but the Mississippi legislative session ends for real on Sunday and the prospects of the abortion ban passing both houses of the legislature now seem extremely remote. As Planned Parenthood's statewide Grassroots Coordinator reported to ProChoiceMississippi yesterday:
I just spoke with Representative Moak, who told me that the House has absolutely no plans to meet in conference with the Senate on the abortion ban. According to Moak, the House conferees have done everything they are going to do. With both Moak and Holland stating that they will not participate further in the conference, the bill is dead, provided that the Senators do not decide to sign on to the House's conference report.
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