Gov. Tate Reeves defends Mississippi’s abortion ban as case goes to Supreme Court
November 29, 2021 | Mississippi
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Sunday defended his state’s law limiting abortion access ahead of oral arguments before the Supreme Court in a case that could decide the fate of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
The Republican governor said that the state’s 2018 abortion law barring most abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation could be upheld without overturning Roe, which legalized abortion nationwide, but that he also said that he believes Roe was “wrongly decided.”
“I believe, in a simple reading of the United States Constitution, that when Roe was decided in 1973, there is no fundamental right in our United States Constitution to an abortion,” Mr. Reeves told NBC host Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.”
“And furthermore, Chuck, I believe very strongly that if you read the Constitution, there is nowhere in the Constitution that prohibits individual states, states like Mississippi, to limit access to abortions,” the governor said. “And so I think Roe was wrongly decided.” .. (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
