The state has instituted a series of unreasonable regulations for doctors who perform abortions. Using a practice very similar to the kind of bottlenecking that was done to suppress black votes during the Jim Crow era, Mississippi has systematically squeezed the number of abortion clinics in the state down to just one.
MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/11/opinion/granderson-mississippi-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
See also...
Judge lets Mississippi's only abortion clinic stay open -- for now
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/11/us/mississippi-abortion-clinic-hearing/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1