A Showdown in Jackson, Mississippi

The National Network of Abortion Funds reports that the Southern Abortion Fund and other groups will hold a week-long clinic defense demonstration in response to plans by Operation Save America (formerly Operation Rescue) to hold a siege on the Mississippi’s last abortion-providing clinic.

July 15-22, 2006 is the proposed siege week, and the Southern Abortion Fund and allies vow to keep the clinic open.

To find out more about the siege, please go to: http://jackson.operationsaveamerica.org/indexVideo.asp.

Currently, members of abortion funds across the south are planning for a caravan to Jackson, Mississippi for the demonstration.

You can support the counter-action by participating in the caravan and clinic defense; acting as a fiscal sponsor; helping raise awareness through publicity or letters to the editor; or donating money, water, food or housing for activists.

To be involved in any of these ways, please contact the Southern Abortion Fund at southernabfund@nnaf.org or the Jackson area NOW chapter at jxnms_now@yahoo.com.