Officials: Mississippi Unprepared For 5,000 More Babies Born Due to Dobbs Ruling

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NEW: About 5,000 more babies will be born in Mississippi each year due to the Dobbs ruling and the abortion ban—but officials say the state is not prepared for the influx.

It's "a problem we need to solve," said Mississippi CPS Commissioner Andrea Sanders.

mississippifreepress.org
Officials: Mississippi Unprepared For 5,000 More Babies Born Due to Dobbs Ruling
At least 5,000 more babies will be born in Mississippi each year than in the past due to the Dobbs ruling and the state abortion ban.
12:05 PM · Oct 3, 2022

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/28031/officials-mississippi-unprepared-for-5000-more-babies-born-yearly-after-dobbs-ruling

“We heard testimony from Dr. Edney in particular, but others also, that as a result of the Dobbs decision, … that on a conservative basis, there will be 5,000 additional births,” Mississippi Sen. Brice Wiggins, a Pascagoula Republican, said during a Sept. 28, 2022, hearing for the Senate Study Group on Women, Children, and Families.

Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, a Republican who serves as the Senate president, appointed the committee after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June, overturning Roe v. Wade and allowing the state to ban nearly all abortions. The law allows limited, tenuous exceptions for rape and to preserve a pregnant person’s life, but it forced the state’s only abortion clinic to close in July.

During the Sept. 28 hearing, Wiggins told Mississippi Department of Child Protective Services Commissioner Andrea Sanders that Edney’s testimony indicated that most of the additional 5,000 children born will be “unwanted or unplanned.” He said that about 60% of children in those circumstances “are on Medicaid” and “end up in the system.”

“So are y’all prepared for 5,000 additional kids across the state?” Wiggins asked Sanders.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Gee, I think I could come up with a simple solution...

[underpants]

2. Governance

We skip over the mechanics of governing and serving.
I didn’t read the whole article. This guy sees or at least takes a few extra steps.

[SoCalDavidS]

3. There Must Be 1,000's Of Pro-Life "Christian" repubs Willing To Adopt Those Babies nt

[Haggard Celine]

8. They want white babies.

[Srkdqltr]

4. So the state has to do something about the children ?

[Turbineguy]

5. Those babies need love and care

which is an anathema to republicans.

[sanatanadharma]

6. Schools!

Damn fools don't have any concept of consequences; can't rationally understand causation and effectuation.

[Scottie Mom]

7. Guess the governor can put those babies on a bus or plane and...

...send them to Alito’s house.

[Skittles]

9. they are on their own

repukes don't give a FUCK about them

[gratuitous]

10. "Gee we didn't think about that"

Anyone want to propose higher taxes?

[Initech]

11. So pro lifers want all the babies to be born, but no plan once they're here.

[maxsolomon]

12. It simply does not matter to RTL pols or advocates.

They have a binary definition of life and abortion, and refuse to contemplate the gray areas.