JACKSON, Miss. (WordNews.org) July 16, 2012 — Judge Daniel P. Jordan is allowing a Mississippi House law to go into effect that could lead to the closing of the state’s only abortion clinic, pro-life group Operation Rescue said.

Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, said he was pleased with the judge’s decision but concerned about his assessment that closing the clinicswould create an “undue burden.”

“This law is meant to protect women by ensuring that they have continuity of care in the event of life-threatening abortion complications, where delays can be fatal,” Newman said. “The primary abortion provider in Mississippi, Bruce Elliot Norman, has a history of such abortion complications. His shoddy medical practices were responsible for another abortion clinic in Alabama to be forced to close in May. That clinic’s owner, Diane Derzis, who also owns the Jackson Women Health Organization (JWHO), was banned from any association with any future abortion business there because of her unsafe administration of that abortion business.”

Newman said the JWHO should not be allowed to continue in business just because it is the last clinic in the state.

“Women deserve better than to have the court ignore serious health risks inflicted upon them by fly-by-night abortionists who swoop into Mississippi from out-of-state, only to leave the matter of complications to emergency room staff that have to figure out on their own what happened,” Newman said. “The judge has proposed a new legal doctrine: A dangerous abortion clinic is better than no abortion clinic. We beg to differ.”

To read the order