After losing battle to preserve Roe v. Wade, Mississippi’s last abortion clinic is moving to New Mexico

Shannon Brewer, director of Mississippi’s Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in her new clinic that will open soon in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on June 27, 2022. (Credit: Gabriela Campos for The Texas Tribune)

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Shannon Brewer has lived in Mississippi her entire life, but when she realized the U.S. Supreme Court was about to upend her life’s work, she didn’t think twice about trading her state’s lush wetlands for a ragged mountain range.

At 50, Brewer has worked nearly half her life at what became Mississippi’s last abortion clinic — whose lawsuit against a statewide ban at 15 weeks into a pregnancy prompted the U.S. Supreme Court’s monumental decision last week eradicating Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion in the United States. Now, her clinic is closing its doors for good, as will those in Texas and numerous other states.