Analysis: Speaker Philip Gunn and a majority of the House are trying to ensure Mississippi voters never have the opportunity to express their views on abortion rights — whatever they might be.
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today March 12, 2023 In 2012, his first year as speaker of the Mississippi House, Philip Gunn authored a resolution that would have made abortion illegal under the state constitution. House Concurrent Resolution 83 read, in part, “to provide that nothing in the Constitution shall be construed to grant to any person the right to choose to have an abortion.” The resolution would have given Mississippians an opportunity to vote on the hot button issue of abortion.
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