Danger, chastity belts!
Posted on 05/08/2022 8:17:02 AM PDT by Morgana
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves refused to say on Sunday if his state would consider legislation outlawing contraception in the future if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Reeves confirmed to NBC's Meet the Press host Chuck Todd that Mississippi would completely ban abortion at the state level if the landmark case were overturned by the Supreme Court.
'What about contraception and birth control, particularly IUDs? I mean, is this total ban that gets put in on abortion, is that going to have an impact on women that decide to have certain types of birth control like IUD?' Todd asked the governor of the deep red state.
'I don't think that it is going to apply to those that choose to use birth control,' Reeves said, avoiding a direct answer to the question.
'I believe that clearly a life begins at conception,' he added.
Later, Todd pushed the matter: 'You've just said that you believe life begins at conception. If there is legislation brought to you to ban contraception, would you sign it?'
'Well, I don't think that's going to happen in Mississippi,' Reeves said in a continued dodge of the question. 'I'm sure they'll have those conversations in other states.'
'But you're not answering the question,' Todd pointed out.
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Katelyn Caralle does a “good” job of twisting words into something that wasn’t meant.
Mississippi also isn’t a “deep red state” as described in the article. If we were then we wouldn’t have a communist crook like Bennie Thompson as one of our representatives. Our senators and the other representatives are RINOS too, we have no real conservatives on the national level.
“I don’t think anyone in GOP is calling for restrictions on the pill.”
If not, they’d better get out in front with the messaging or the filth of the left will.
Probably too late. Roe vs Wade is a losing issue for GOP. Should have waited until next year. But SCOTUS is not a political institution so they have to do the right thing. So be it.
Don't be surprised if Dems keep the Senate and the red wave fails to materialize in the House. All the Dems have to do is to run on the issue that the Reps will ban abortion everywhere and enough women will vote blue and that will make a difference in the election.
The economy is scrappy but it's not that bad yet. So the rats will get to change the subject and the timing is very favorable for them. Now it's no longer about Joe Biden's performance as the POTUS.
As soon as a life is created, that's a different story.
RvW is lighting rod for more than a few fiscally conservatives who are also pro-choice not every fiscal conservative is also a die hard social conservative especially the urban higher education group those with PhDs and above. The Mensa members the lawyers the doctor’s those people who own businesses and hate government taxes and over regulation but could care less about the religious dogma of the far right. None of the fiscal conservatives I know are not also pro-choice not one and that number of people is in the hundreds, every moderate I know is also pro-choice the split is first trimester or second none support third trimester but ALL support at least the first trimester. If the far right moral zealots also ban contraceptives they will get shellaced for it. The very next order of business for the left will be to pack Court and they will take that to the bank. The compromise is going to be first trimester that’s where the vast majority of Americans who are not part of a right wing echo chamber are at. Stop any 18 to 40 year old on the street and tell them that they have to have a baby they don’t want not can afford, and also tell them they should have kept there legs shut or they should have kept it in their pants all high and mighty like and see how fast they vote exactly opposite to that with a voter’s energy that will stock the rigit. This is the hill to die on for younger people who don’t want kids they will show up in force in November if the GOP does something stupid like ban early term abortions and especially contraceptives that’s about the dumbest move.
The 1st and 2nd Amendment for starters.
Every innocent little preborn baby has a right to life from conception forward.
There is no number of hours, days, weeks, or months in which it is OK to murder an innocent little preborn baby.
The motives of the media are so transparent. Abortion has become so abhorrent to many people that the only hope of the baby-killers is to attempt to tie it to contraception which remains popularly acceptable.
Well said.
Explain why you call it a losing issue.
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