The Fate of Jackson Women’s Health Organization: What Judge
Jordan May Be Thinking  The temporary restraining order on H.B.
1390, the Mississippi bill meant to shut down the state’s only
public clinic that provides abortions, has no set end date.
Judge Daniel P. Jordan III has blocked the law while considering
new information supplied the morning of the court date to rule
on a permanent injunction, and this indefinite block could be a
sign that he’s weighing the timeline of the process against the
constitutionality of the law itself.   The TRAP law, which
requires that anyone who performs more than 10 abortions in the
state per month to be both a board-certified OBGYN, and to have
admitting privileges to a local hospital, is clearly meant at
this point to close down the clinic. The doctors associated with
JWHO are already certified, and although they currently have not
been able to obtain privileges, the clinic itself has a transfer
order with a local hospital in case of emergencies.  But the law
isn’t just m