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Mediaite reports:
“Why is it acceptable in your state to force girls who are victims of incest to carry those children to term?” Tapper asked. Reeves argued that abortion procedures overwhelmingly happen in elective cases while incest is a much more uncommon circumstance by comparison.
“This is your law,” Tapper interjected. He added, “that is going to be the law of Mississippi.” The CNN anchor went on to ask Reeves if the state will force mothers to carry a child to term, even if the fetus is detected with “serious or fatal abnormalities that will not allow [it] to live outside the womb.”
“Is the state of Mississippi going to force those girls and women who have this tragedy inside them to carry the child to term?” He asked. “Are you going to force them to do that?” Reeves countered that Tapper was talking about “examples that are rare and are very small percentage of the overall abortions.”
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Jake Tapper: “Why is it acceptable in your state to force girls who are victims of incest to carry those children to term?”
Tate Reeves: “The reality is, again, that affects less than 1% of all abortions in America.”
Tapper: “Are you going to force them to do that?” pic.twitter.com/kJLra2I9ce
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 8, 2022
JAKE TAPPER: Assuming SCOTUS overturns Roe, Mississippi will force girls & women who are victims of incest to carry the child to term. Can you explain why that is the law?
GOV. TATE REEVES: Because in 2007 the Mississippi legislature passed it pic.twitter.com/9i0uPy8urx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2022
“That is not what we are focused on at this time” — Gov. Reeves doesn’t slam the door on Mississippi banning Plan B and IUDs pic.twitter.com/GLsfiWO72k
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2022
In Mississippi, we respect medical privacy and religious freedoms, and trust our residents to make decisions that are best for them and their families.
That’s why I signed legislation banning vaccine mandates and vaccine passports in our state! pic.twitter.com/b1bPwI369Y
— Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) April 29, 2022