The power of one lonely building in Mississippi

>>> our foot soldier this week is a bit unorthodox. instead of honoring a person we are honoring a building. for month we've been bringing you the story of one lonely building in mississippi , the jackson women 's health organization is the state's only remaining abortion clinic . it's been targeted by the conservative governor and lawmakers. they're using a strategy called targeted represent lags of abortion providers that out clinics that provide abortions and burden them with requirements more restrictive than other medical procedures. for months this little gray building has been trapped. it is trapped between new laws that require its doctors to secure a hospital-admitting privileges and the seven local hospitals that refuse to grant the doctors the privileges. because the clinic is trapped, so are the women of mississippi . mississippi is one of the poorest states in the nation. it has the highest teen birth rate. and yet the women of mississippi have the same constitutional right as all american women . one of those is to seek an abortion. but lawmakers have figured out the easiest way to deny women the ability to exercise that right is to attack this building. here it stand, jackson 's women 's health, the sole provider for the state's most vulnerable women , those who are poor, those who are teens, those who lack resources to raise a child, those who already have children and have no other way to support another. those who have been victimized by domestic violence or rape. those who do not have a private obgyn who can quietly give them an abortion and submit it to insurance as dd and c. these are the women for whom the jackson 's women 's health center has been a beacon. this week this little foot soldiering building did something terrific. it turned pink. bright pink. defiance in your face, i am not afraid to stay pink. even as it is trapped on the biassed regulations of anti-choice legislatures, the jackson women 's health organization boldly declared its intention to continue to serve the women of mississippi . fighting back against the gray clouds of trap with a bright coat of pink paint, for that the jackson women 's health organization is our foot soldier of the week. and