{"id":1468156,"date":"2022-05-08T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T19:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468156"},"modified":"2022-05-08T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T19:29:45","slug":"there-is-an-american-child-in-that-womb-mississippi-gov-tate-reeves-defends-abortion-ban-discusses-future-of-the-pro-life-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-is-an-american-child-in-that-womb-mississippi-gov-tate-reeves-defends-abortion-ban-discusses-future-of-the-pro-life-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There Is An American Child In That Womb\u2019: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves Defends Abortion Ban, Discusses Future Of The Pro-Life Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthere-is-an-american-child-in-that-womb-mississippi-gov-tate-reeves-defends-abortion-ban-discusses-future-of-the-pro-life-movement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468156&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1223659407.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves defended his state\u2019s abortion laws and discussed the future of the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Chuck Todd on NBC\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/full-mississippi-gov-there-is-an-american-child-in-that-womb\/550277552\">Meet the Press<\/a>\u201d Sunday, Reeves discussed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-supreme-court-strikes-down-roe-v-wade-decision-in-draft-of-majority-opinion-report-says\">leaked early draft<\/a> of the Supreme Court\u2019s majority opinion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/supreme-court-takes-up-mississippi-abortion-case-that-could-limit-roe-v-wade\"><em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em><\/a>, which is based on a 2018 Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Supreme Court agreed to take up the case in May 2021. Mississippi is also one of 13 states with so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/reproductiverights.org\/maps\/what-if-roe-fell\/\">trigger bans<\/a>\u201d on abortion that go into effect if the Court overturns <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Todd began the interview by asking if the 2018 law at issue would ever go into effect, since Mississippi passed a trigger ban in 2007. \u201cThe whole point of this was to get a case to the Supreme Court to overturn\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em>,\u201d Todd claimed, \u201cso will the 15-week ban, if <em>Roe\u00a0<\/em>is overturned, be implemented in the state of Mississippi?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves responded, mentioning that the trigger law passed in 2007 was enacted by the Mississippi State Legislature with a Democratic Speaker of the House and Chairman of the Public Health Committee, representing the shift between the two major parties on the issue of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves then dismissed Todd\u2019s claim about the 2018 law, saying: \u201cWhen we enacted the 15-week ban, our initial intent and our goal was really just to save babies\u2019 lives,\u201d Reeves said. \u201cWe believe that if Roe was not ever overturned, that it was certainly the viewpoint of Mississippians that if we could enact laws that would save babies\u2019 lives, that it would be an, an endeavor to do so.\u201d He then reiterated that the 2007 law would go into effect if the Court\u2019s early draft held up.<\/p>\n<p>Todd went on to challenge Reeves on the issue of contraception, asking Reeves if the trigger ban would apply to contraceptives. Reeves denied that it would.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that it is going to apply to those that choose to use birth control,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe that clearly a life begins at conception, and I am trying very hard to make sure that everyone in America knows that the overturning of Roe certainly puts the decision-making on abortion policy back in the elected representatives in each of the 50 states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is legislation brought to you to ban contraception, would you sign it?\u201d Todd asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to happen in Mississippi,\u201d Reeves responded. \u201cI\u2019m sure they\u2019ll have those conversations in other states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you\u2019re not answering the question,\u201d Todd cut in.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves dismissed the question. \u201cThere\u2019s so many things that we can talk about,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat the next movement in the pro-life movement in my view, Chuck, is simple. And that is we must prove that being pro-life is not just about anti-abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To do this, Reeves cited two important priorities for his state. First, making resources available for expectant mothers, including investing in pregnancy resource centers and working toward a statewide system. Secondly, putting more resources into adoption and foster care programs, including the $100 million Mississippi invested to improve state programming.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves also discussed the challenges facing his state if the law goes into effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an American child in that womb,\u201d Reeves concluded. \u201cAnd it\u2019s incumbent upon those of us who are elected to stand up for the rights of those individuals that can\u2019t stand up for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves defended his state\u2019s abortion laws and discussed the future of the pro-life movement.Speaking with Chuck Todd on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d Sunday, Reeves discussed the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1482041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}