What I'm Listening To...The Pink House.

 

The 'Pink House' in Jackson was the last clinic to provide women with a safe place to obtain an abortion in the American state of Mississippi:

On June 24, Diane Derzis stood outside Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. Behind her loomed the building’s large, bubblegum-hued façade that has earned it the nickname “The Pink House.”

Her clinic has been an icon of abortion rights in Mississippi. And it is at the centre of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, in the most cataclysmic case for the cause in generations: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. With that case’s reversal of the landmark 1973 ruling, American women no longer have a federally protected right to seek and obtain an abortion...

Now, two weeks after the overturning of Roe, the Pink House has closed its doors, seemingly for good.

In Jackson, at least.

Because the folks behind the Jackson Women's Health Organization are working to open a clinic three states away in New Mexico.

As only it can, 'This American Life' tells the human stories behind the struggle to keep the spirit of the Pink House alive.

It's a great listen.

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