The  Guardian has just reported on the abortion ban in Mississippi, and done a masterful job of it. 

The  Guardian has just reported on the abortion ban in Mississippi, and done a masterful job of it.  

Excerpt:

Casey is 15 and not actually called Casey. She strikes me as not very savvy. She's scared and confused but at least she's there with her mother and father, having confessed to them both the day before. The three of them alternate between sounding worried and relieved. 'It was very intimidating coming here,' said Judy, her mother. 'But we just ignored the protesters and walked through. It was a very hard, hard choice. But it was our choice to make, not theirs. It would be devastating for her to have a baby now. She's just not old enough.'

Sex education at Casey's school, as it is across the state, is non-existent. 'Occasionally they talk to us about abstinence,' she says. 'But that's it.' Mississippi has the third highest teenage pregnancy rate in the country, one of the highest rates of infant mortality, and 24 per cent of children live beneath the poverty line.

'Do you not think there might be a correlation between the teenage pregnancy rate and the lack of sex education?' I ask Terri Herring of the Pro-Life Mississippi.