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Mississippi Edition - 7/7/2022 - What Now?

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Derenda Hancock, co-director of the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic patient escorts, better known as the Pink House defenders, left, and her partner James Parker, walk away from the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, July 6, 2022.
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

Mississippi's trigger law to ban almost all abortions takes effect today, and it's putting the state's last abortion clinic out of business.

The Jackson Women's Health Organization, also known as the Pink House, has provided reproductive health services to Mississippi women for decades. Now, it'll undergo existential change as it seeks to find traction in a state-- and a country-- with significant limits on abortion access.