Mississippi policymakers turn attention to adding better supports for women and children

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Friday will mark three weeks since the US Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade. And abortion insurance policies at the moment are as much as the states.

Mississippi’s near-total abortion ban is now in impact. It has been challenged and is at present pending earlier than the Mississippi Supreme Courtroom. However within the meantime, the conversations are shifting to what coverage modifications must occur.

Making a tradition of life is one thing Governor Tate Reeves has been discussing for months in anticipation of the Supreme Courtroom’s determination. However he’s not provided many particulars. Right here’s what he stated whereas in Columbus Thursday.

“It’s about investing in our youngster safety companies companies it’s about investing in adoption and making it simpler for for these mothers to to have their youngster’s however but in the event that they if they’ll’t or don’t need to maintain them to place them up for adoption in order that different loving households can discover a ceaselessly dwelling for these younger individuals.”

Within the state Senate, a committee has already been named to handle lots of these very points.

“As a person of religion and a legislator, I’m on the lookout for a holistic manner that we are able to method life on this state now on the bottom of Roe versus Wade, and what we are able to do to strengthen Mississippi households,” stated Sen. Chad McMahan.

Committee member and democrat Sen. Rod Hickman says it’s a possibility for the state to take “a tough flip in the correct route”.

“We’re not even a professional start state,” stated Hickman. “We’re a professional being pregnant state. Simply keep pregnant and hopefully you’ll have your child wholesome however possibly you gained’t. However we wish you to remain pregnant. So, we have to turn into a professional start state and a professional life state and we have to dwell out the true that means of these issues in that right here we are attempting to create some coverage that may make us certainly professional life.”

Home minority chief Rep. Robert Johnson says he’s heard there’s the same Home committee could also be within the works however it hasn’t been formally named.

“I might defer to a different advocate who stated as soon as if Mississippi was critical about doing one thing for ladies and kids, they’d have completed one thing earlier than Roe vs. Wade was repealed,” added Johnson. “However in my caucus, what we’re going to do is defer to the ladies in our caucus and listen to what they should say and take the comply with their management on this difficulty and do as a lot as we are able to.”

The state Legal professional Basic’s workplace nonetheless has just a little greater than every week left to answer to the abortion clinic’s problem that’s earlier than the state Supreme Courtroom.

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