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    The last abortion clinic in Mississippi closes its doors

    by Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times Jul 07, 2022 6 minutes
    View of the Jackson Women's Health Organization in Jackson, Mississippi on July 6, 2022.

    JACKSON, Miss. — Just before dawn Wednesday outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization, Derenda Hancock propped a hand-scrawled placard on a folding chair.

    "We Won't Back Down," it said in bold red letters.

    Then she put up another sign — "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" — and plopped down on the sidewalk.

    "This is the hardest day," said the 63-year-old volunteer, lighting a cigarette as a boombox played Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'."

    It was the last day of Mississippi's last abortion clinic. The last day Hancock would wrap her skinny arm around a patient as she ushered her through the clinic's glass door for an abortion. The last day staffers would answer the phone — "Jackson Women's Health. May I help you?" — knowing they actually could help.

    Dubbed "The Pink House" for its bubblegum-pink exterior walls, the clinic has long been the epicenter of the nation's fight over abortion and the last bastion of reproductive rights in

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