The Senate has handed the invoice and it awaits motion within the Home whilst Speaker Gunn maintains his opposition.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves launched a press release on Sunday saying that he would signal a invoice that gives for 12-month postpartum Medicaid protection.

The assertion by the Governor concerning the enlargement of this system is a big shift within the debate on the problem as he and different Republicans have beforehand opposed Medicaid enlargement.

Reeves mentioned he’s prepared to take action now within the post-Dobbs, post-Roe world as a part of the state’s new pro-life agenda.

A invoice – SB 2212 – to increase the protection has handed the state Senate in an 41-11 vote and awaits consideration within the Home Medicaid Committee.

Speaker of the Home Philip Gunn has repeatedly voiced his opposition to passing the laws.

Whether or not this new growth from Governor Reeves adjustments minds within the Home GOP Caucus shall be on show as lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday.

Right here is the total assertion from Governor Reeves:

“In Mississippi—for ANY quickly to be mother and for a very long time earlier than I grew to become Governor—we have now had presumed Medicaid eligibility. This ensures that each expectant mom and baby can get prenatal care as quickly because the being pregnant is found.

“And for the reason that starting of the general public well being emergency in early 2020, that protection has included 12 months of postpartum care. This ensures that Mother—and child—can get look after as much as a yr after the beginning of the kid.

“The talk surrounding the way forward for these advantages has been fierce. And, to be completely sincere, I haven’t been swayed by the information that’s, at finest, incomplete and, at worst, usually misconstrued and mischaracterized by the “extra authorities advantages regardless of the prices” crowd.

“Nevertheless, the very fact is we reside in a Submit-Dobbs world. We, as Mississippi conservatives, led the cost to finish Roe vs. Wade and I couldn’t be extra pleased with that victory. That authorized victory ensures that extra infants shall be born into this nice state and this nice nation. I consider that to be a fantastic factor.

“I additionally consider that added stress shall be felt by extra Mississippi mothers. Now we have to like them. Now we have to assist them. And – in a post-Dobbs world – we could even need to be prepared to do issues that make us “philosophically uncomfortable.”

“I’m prepared to to try this as a part of our new pro-life agenda. As I’ve mentioned many occasions, it won’t be simple and it’ll not be free. However will probably be price it, as extra kids of God are introduced into the world!

“The legislature ought to move a legislation persevering with this 12 months of postpartum protection…and, in the event that they do, I’ll signal it into legislation.

“I don’t count on all of my buddies to agree with this choice. However I make it – as all the time – as a result of I consider in my coronary heart it’s the proper factor to do for Mississippi Mothers given the information as I see them right now.

“Might God bless Mississippi!”