Mississippi

July 27, 2021

Mississippi has some nerve. They are virtually last among the states (actually they rank 49th overall) in every category that means anything to its residents and their quality of life. They are near the bottom in education, healthcare, life expectancy, vaccination rates, personal income, infrastructure, economic opportunity and more. It was the only state to incorporate the Confederate flag into its own state flag. Those of us in the high tax states have to send money to Mississippi every year just to keep them solvent. They get $1.00 in Federal payments back for every $.85 they send to Washington, and they don’t even say thank you, y’all. Even the Ol’ Miss and Mississippi State football programs are losers.

With all of that, they have decided that what they really need to do is overturn Roe vs. Wade because that is what their problem is. Mississippi’s attorney general told the Supreme Court that Roe v. Wade was “egregiously wrong” and should be overturned as she urged the justices to allow a controversial law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks to go into effect. So the least productive and successful amongst us is trying to mandate how we lead our lives, and control the choices we make. There are a lot of things that Mississippi should be mandating, but eliminating abortion is not among them.