Within a day of the Gestational Age Act's passage, Mississippi's only abortion clinic, Jackson Women's Health Organization, and one of its doctors, Sacheen Carr-Ellis, sued state officials Thomas E. Dobbs, state health officer with the Mississippi State Department of Health, and Kenneth Cleveland, executive director of the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure, to challenge the Act's constitutionality.[1] The clinic does surgical abortions up to 16 weeks' gestation and is represented in court by the Center for Reproductive Rights.[23] The case was heard by Judge Carlton W. Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.