Life begins at conception and ends at birth
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This has always been what “pro-lifers” of any power and influence in America have believed, and that’s not going to change:
For the second year in a row, Mississippi House leadership has once again killed an extension of postpartum Medicaid benefits, likely guaranteeing that many low-income people will lose health insurance benefits only two months after giving birth.
In February, the Mississippi Senate passed Senate Bill 2033, which would have extended coverage to 12 months if the House had also approved it, in a 46-5 vote. Yesterday, the bill died for the second year in a row, victim to political gamesmanship.
Under current state Medicaid provisions, new mothers have access to medical insurance through Medicaid for only 60 days, with benefits ending abruptly after that time. The following months are some of the most dangerous for new mothers, and cutting off care ends the diagnostic and treatment interventions that could otherwise save lives.
Cassandra Welchlin, executive director of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, told Mississippi Free Press reporter Ashton Pittman in a Wednesday interview that the decision to kill the bill would have dire consequences for the state.
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Now, the standalone bill perishes on the calendar thanks to Rep. Joey Hood, R-Ackerman, chairman of the House Medicaid Committee, and Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton. This time, Gunn acknowledged to Associated Press’ Emily Wagster Pettus that his decision to spike the bill came from a fear of the appearance of “Medicaid expansion.”
“As I’ve said very publicly, I’m opposed to Medicaid expansion,” Gunn told the AP on March 9. “We need to look for ways to keep people off, not put them on.”
Well, yes, not giving Medicaid to people does keep them off Medicaid, gotta give him that one!
When Roe is finally overruled in June, Ross Douthat and other conservatives who used to be called “reformicons” will posit hypothetical scenarios in which Republicans ban abortion and invest in maternal health, and some centrist pundits will even take this seriously. I assure you that these scenarios will eternally remain hypothetical — judge Republican public officials by their actions, and for that matter their words.