Hours after the Supreme Court docket determination got here down, Mississippi Free Press reviews that Speaker Gunn spoke with reporters on the State Home flooring. Right here’s a verbatim retelling of that interplay:
AP REPORTER EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS: What concerning the case of a 12-year-old lady who was molested by her father or uncle?
SPEAKER PHILIP GUNN: I imagine life begins at conception. And each life is effective. And people are my private beliefs.
DAILY JOURNAL REPORTER TAYLOR VANCE: In order that 12-year-old baby molested by her members of the family ought to carry that being pregnant to time period?
SPEAKER GUNN: That’s my private perception. I imagine that life begins at conception.
Gunn then stated he solely wished to speak about how Roe v. Wade was overturned and didn’t need the main target to be on what that really means for human beings dwelling in locations like Mississippi. Gunn’s place, and this isn’t hyperbolic, is that incest survivors and rape survivors needs to be tried, convicted, and despatched to jail in the event that they resolve that they’d slightly terminate an undesirable being pregnant than reside with that trauma for months and months, then delivery a baby into the uncaring GOP hellscape Mississippi Republicans provide as much as younger mother and father.
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Speaker Gunn, like the remainder of his GOP cabal, is greatest recognized for attacking dwelling wage issues and saying labor shortages are as a result of COVID-19 unemployment advantages. For all of Gunn’s speak about the necessity to shield sacred life and the lip service he and different conservatives have given to the necessity to assist these folks having kids, Gunn and the Mississippi GOP have but to increase their Medicaid applications—a transfer that may instantly assist alleviate a number of the well being care issues confronted by Mississippians, pregnant and never.
The man that made the feedback above and tweeted out the identical day that “The day so many prayed for is right here. HB1510 is regulation and Roe v. Wade isn’t any extra. With love for youngsters and the ladies who bear them, we transfer ahead to safe robust and lasting authorized protections and cultural help for all times, and a vibrant community of abortion alternate options,” can be the man that for TWO YEARS in a row has “killed an extension of postpartum Medicaid advantages, doubtless guaranteeing that many low-income folks will lose medical health insurance advantages solely two months after giving delivery.”
Mississippi has one of the abysmal toddler mortality charges of any industrialized place on the planet. In truth, it has the worst toddler mortality charge in the complete United States. Gunn turned speaker of the Mississippi Home in 2012; since then, the abysmal charge has gone from third worst to worst worst within the nation. So, for a decade, Speaker Philip Gunn’s laws or lack thereof has led to lifeless infants—1000’s of them.
Contemplating that he’s beneath the delusion that life begins at conception, because of this his God—the identical one he pretends is an excuse for his merciless assault on younger mother and father—murders tens of millions of “infants” yearly, as about half of all “fertilized eggs die and are misplaced (aborted) spontaneously, normally earlier than the lady is aware of she is pregnant. Amongst ladies who know they’re pregnant, about 10% to 25% may have a miscarriage.”
Mississippi abortion suppliers are suing the state, arguing there’s a state precedent that supersedes the 2007 set off regulation. Rob McDuff of the Mississippi Heart for Justice was a lawyer on that precedent. He defined to Mississippi At this time that “The Mississippi Supreme Court docket’s 1998 determination deciphering the Mississippi Structure exists utterly impartial of the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s selections concerning the federal Structure. It’s binding precedent. As confirmed by the Mississippi Supreme Court docket in that case, the choice about whether or not and when to have kids belongs to people and households, to not the state’s politicians.”
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