The Pink House is closed: Abortions no longer available in Mississippi – National & International News – Thurs. July 7, 2022
Abortions are no longer available in Mississippi; Scandal-Plagued UK PM Boris Johnson to step down; FBI & Britain’s M15 warn of immense Chinese threat; global inflation pushes millions to poverty level.
NATIONAL NEWS
Abortions no longer available in Mississippi
Effective today, July 7, 2022: Abortions are not available in Mississippi.
The Pink House, Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, in the Fondren neighborhood of Jackson performed what is likely to be its last abortion yesterday afternoon.
The only exceptions will be when continuing the pregnancy is a demonstrable threat to the life of the mother or when the pregnant woman has reported a rape to Mississippi law enforcement.
The closing of Pink House, officially “Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” appeared to be nearly inevitable after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Jun 24. However, abortion proponents brought a suit against the state citing a 1998 decision by the Mississippi Supreme Court in the “Pro-Choice Mississippi v. Kirk Fordice” case. In that case the state supreme court, as then constituted, upheld the right to abortion in the state.
However, Chancery Judge Debbra Halford ruled Tuesday that since abortion no longer has constitutional protection, the Mississippi Supreme Court, now made up of more conservative judges, was unlikely to uphold any right to an abortion under the 1998 ruling.
Pro- and anti-abortion demonstrators traded insults at the Pink House yesterday.
Pro-abortion advocates warned, “There will be women who will die” because Pink House is closing.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Boris Johnson to step down
Boris Johnson announced this morning that he is resigning as Prime Minister after three colorful, sometimes bizarre, years as the top political leader of the United Kingdom.
Several of his Cabinet members had already resigned in recent days.
His time as Prime Minister has been marked high drunken parties at number 10, sexually related scandals and buffoonery that went beyond the well developed British sense of humor!
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British, American domestic espionage directors warn of Chinese threat
The heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Britain’s M15 have warned of an “immense” threat to the economies and political structures of western democracies.
Ken McCallum, the head of M15, the United Kingdom’s domestic intelligence organization, joined his counterpart, U.S. FBI Director Christopher Wray, in a joint press conference yesterday in London. The rare joint appearance of the two domestic counter-espionage organizations took place at Thames House, MI15’s headquarters.
Wray and McCallum warned of Chinese espionage operations aimed at everything from stealing technology to interfering in a congressional election in the U.S. state of New York.
They said Chinese operatives had even dug seeds out of the ground on rural American farms to steal genetic engineering information that had taken years to develop.
Much of the Chinese espionage is done through the Internet. The Chinese have long been infamous for stealing patents on American designs ranging from heavy equipment to the mechanical devices of “motion furniture.”
McCallum said MI15 had more than doubled its work against Chinese espionage during the last three years and were ready to double it again.
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Global inflation pushing millions into poverty
A UN agency reported today that the world-wide increase in commodities prices, is pushing an additional 71-million people in the world’s poorest countries into extreme poverty.
The UN Development Programme said an analysis of 159 developing countries showed the rapid increase in commodities prices has already slammed Sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans and many parts of Asia.
The UN report said the number of people living in abject poverty could be pushed to as high as 1.7 billion people.
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