Mississippi Gov. Reeves focuses on ‘culture of life’ after Roe v. Wade: ‘Not simply about being anti-abortion’

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, pressured Sunday that the pro-life motion is shifting towards a “tradition of life,” as his state lawyer common is ready to defend its set off regulation banning most abortions besides to avoid wasting a mom’s life following the Supreme Court docket overturning Roe v. Wade. 

In an look on “Fox Information Sunday,” Reeves informed Fox Information host Mike Emmanuel that he plans to implement the state’s set off regulation regardless of a brand new lawsuit from the state’s solely abortion clinic. 

“The very fact of the matter is this whole court docket battle was by no means about profitable a court docket case. It was all the time about making a tradition of life,” Reeves stated, explaining the necessity to develop extra assist for expectant mom and infants. “That’s precisely what we’re doing right here in Mississippi, and that’s what we as pro-life Mississippians and pro-life People need to proceed to do. We’ve got to show that being pro-life will not be merely about being anti-abortion. And in our state, we’re enacting insurance policies to do precisely that.” 

Mississippi Legal professional Normal Lynn Fitch has already initiated steps to certify the state’s set off regulation, which might go into impact after 10 days. However a authorized problem from Jackson Girls’s Well being Group cites a state Supreme Court docket ruling from 1998 arguing that the state structure’s privateness ensures embody an implied proper to decide on whether or not or to not have an abortion. 

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“Jackson Girls’s Well being Group, which is the very same group that we have been reverse within the Supreme Court docket case, then filed go well with in state court docket,” Reeves stated. “We’re coping with that, the chief justice of the Supreme Court docket has appointed a particular decide to listen to that case as a result of the 4 chancellors in Hinds County, which is the court docket of jurisdiction recused themselves, and so we predict a listening to someday early this week on that individual case however sure, I do count on for the state’s regulation to be upheld within the state court docket and I do count on our set off regulation to enter impact.”

The governor stated docs might lose their licenses to apply in Mississippi in the event that they’re discovered to be prescribing telemedicine abortion tablets, however he assured that he had no motive to consider surveillance shall be performed on mail or telephone calls of pregnant ladies. 

“In our state, the enforcement is completed by the State Board of Medical Licensure. We’ve got a State Board of Medical Licensure right here which really oversees the apply of drugs in our state. And so they make sure that any doctor that’s training, whether or not it is via telemedicine or in any other case, that any doctor that practices in our state is training not solely primarily based upon the requirements of care that we require in our state, but additionally primarily based upon state regulation,” Reeves defined. “And so, if a doctor is trying to apply medication within the state of Mississippi, and so they’re violating our regulation, then our State Board of Medical Licensure will pull their license from them.”

“Ought to docs in different states be involved about prosecution?” Emanuel requested. 

Demonstrators outdoors the Supreme Court docket on June 21, 2022.
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“Effectively, definitely I feel that docs in different states ought to be involved about all types of issues, however I am hopeful that in making a tradition of life in our state, by investing in being pregnant useful resource facilities, the issues that we’re doing now to offer the sources to moms and infants that they want,” Reeves stated, “which I feel it is extremely vital, that we’ll persuade these mothers that sure, these lives are valuable, and there are individuals on this world and there are individuals within the state of Mississippi who love not solely the mothers, but additionally the infants and we’re seeking to do every thing we are able to to assist create a eternally house for each single child in Mississippi and we consider we are going to save lives by doing so.”

Reeves stated he doesn’t consider an exception for rape will make it via the Mississippi legislature or finally to his desk, however pressured that a big majority of abortions in America are elective procedures. 

“There’s a whole lot of effort, notably in Washington and different locations, primarily by the Democrats to attempt to discuss solely about the true, small, minor variety of exceptions that will exist,” Reeves stated. “As you understand, over 90% of all abortions which are performed in America, some 63 million infants lives aborted, since Roe was wrongly determined in 1973. Over 90% of these are elective abortions.” 

Professional-choice demonstrators collect outdoors the Supreme Court docket in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022.
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“If the far left actually consider what they need you to consider, in the event that they actually consider that the American individuals have been with them and have been for abortion on demand, then they would not be speaking about all of those exceptions and minor numbers, they’d be speaking about abortion itself,” he added. 

Reeves additionally credited former President Donald Trump’s legacy for the Supreme Court docket overturning Roe v. Wade, signaling that he would assist Trump in 2024 if he chooses to run once more. 

“There isn’t any doubt in my thoughts that have been it not for his conservative justices, and by the way in which, that marketing campaign in 2016 was largely run on who had the power to nominate Supreme Court docket justices,” he stated. “And so due to this fact, I consider that President Trump’s legacy goes to be making a Supreme Court docket that focuses on the Structure. Now, he is gonna need to resolve whether or not or not he will run for President and that is a choice that solely he could make. After which we’ll resolve at that time.”

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“However he definitely did a incredible job as president and the actual fact of the matter is whenever you discuss to People and folks in small cities throughout Mississippi, the issues like inflation are what individuals are frightened about,” the governor added. “They don’t seem to be frightened about this trial that is being had by just one aspect in Washington, DC. They’re targeted on the problems that matter to them and their pocketbooks. And Joe Biden’s inflation is actually hurting on a regular basis Mississippians.”