With a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court looming, Dr. Cheryl Hamlin works what is likely her final shift in Jackson, Mississippi.
by Isabelle Taft, Mississippi Today June 16, 2022 Dr. Cheryl Hamlin once attended a demonstration against the Iraq War in the Boston Common, but she's never felt like much of a radical. Then she started providing abortions in Mississippi. Hamlin, a 60-year-old OB-GYN at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., spends three days a month at the state’s only abortion clinic in Jackson. Her work places her at the center of a decades-long national war that has culminated in the U.S.
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