This Massachusetts doctor's trips to Mississippi to perform abortions will end if Roe v. Wade is overturned:
The Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic, a state-licensed abortion clinic in Jackson, Miss., is seen on May 19, 2021. Also known as the"Pink House," it is shrouded with a black tarp so that its clients may enter in privacy.
It's the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, and it pays doctors like Hamlin to fly in and perform the procedure. No Mississippi doctors work there, because the stigma of the work keeps them from getting hired anywhere else in the state, Hamlin said.But in the coming days, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to announce its ruling in a case that could overturn the Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion in 1973.
A lot of them haven't really seen a doctor. I'm the first doctor they've seen in a while, and so I do talk to them about their blood pressure, not so much related to the abortion.