Thread by @ashtonpittman

The hearing over Mississippi's abortion trigger ban began today with a prayer for the presence of “the Holy Spirit" and that the court would "seek (God)'s truth, not our own."

Rev. Calvin Cosnahan delivered the prayer at Judge Debbra K. Halford's request.
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Here's the video of the very specifically Christian prayer that was delivered in court at the start of the abortion trigger law hearing:

https://twitter.com/jallen1985/status/1544488323858710528

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Hours after the hearing over Mississippi's abortion trigger ban, Judge Debbra K. Halford issued an 8-page order allowing the near-total abortion ban to go into effect.

She said blocking the law would do "irreparable harm" to the State of Mississippi.
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The Mississippi abortion ban that resulted in the overturn of Roe v. Wade was written by a right-wing Christian legal organization that wants to "inspire a Christian worldview in every area of law."

The goal of the law was always to "eradicate Roe."mississippifreepress.org/20042/to-rule-…

Judge Debbra K. Halford was appointed as a special chancellor to preside over the case by the Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice after all the judges in the district where the case was filed recused themselves.
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“It is a great victory for life,” said Gov. @TateReeves, whose state boasts the nation’s highest infant and fetal death rates, lowest overall life expectancy rate and where the pregnancy-related maternal death rate is 1.9x higher than the U.S. as a whole.mississippifreepress.org/25371/judge-le…