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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHypothetical 12-Year-Old Victims Should Carry Pregnancy to Term, Mississippi House Speaker Gunn Says
Business Insider via Yahoo NewsMississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn said 12-year-old who is impregnated by a family member should have to carry that child to term, bucking incest exceptions to abortion bans.
Gunn, a Republican, was speaking during a press conference after the reversal of Roe v. Wade. A Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy was at the center of the Supreme Court opinion that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. The law includes exceptions for a medical emergency or "severe fetal abnormality," but none for pregnancies resulting from incest or rape.
When a reporter asked Gunn about the possibility of an exception in cases of incest, he said he was unsure "what the Legislature's appetite" would be for adding such an exception to the law.
The reporter then asked if he thought Mississippi's legislature should take another look at the matter, to which Gunn replied: "Personally, no. I do not."
"I believe life begins at conception. And every life is valuable. Those are my personal beliefs," he said.
Gunn, a Republican, was speaking during a press conference after the reversal of Roe v. Wade. A Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy was at the center of the Supreme Court opinion that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. The law includes exceptions for a medical emergency or "severe fetal abnormality," but none for pregnancies resulting from incest or rape.
When a reporter asked Gunn about the possibility of an exception in cases of incest, he said he was unsure "what the Legislature's appetite" would be for adding such an exception to the law.
The reporter then asked if he thought Mississippi's legislature should take another look at the matter, to which Gunn replied: "Personally, no. I do not."
"I believe life begins at conception. And every life is valuable. Those are my personal beliefs," he said.
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Hypothetical 12-Year-Old Victims Should Carry Pregnancy to Term, Mississippi House Speaker Gunn Says (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Jul 2022
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delisen
(6,044 posts)1. How does 12 yr old support child? Mississippi going to bring back workhouses?
Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)2. I have to wonder if he would stick to those personal beliefs if
he had a pregnant 12 year old daughter. My guess is that he would find an excuse for her to get an abortion.
TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts)3. He would have gotten away with it if it weren't for. . .
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Skittles
(153,193 posts)4. "every life is valuable"
not a female's
Goodheart
(5,345 posts)5. He's an evil piece of shit.
XorXor
(625 posts)6. Has there been any solid studies about how many people in the US hold these extreme views?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)7. He needs to be reminded that not everyone shares his beliefs.