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Office have made any contact with me to offer any explanation for why this has happened and so it is total dismay and outrage on my part. at the process. >> dr. carl reddix, member of the mississippi state board of health, being ousted now by the republican governor there. thank you for joining us tonight. i feel like it has run its course, but to the extent that this continues in the state, i hope you'll stay in touch with us and let us know how this pans out, sir. thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> all right. okay. do you know this game? this is...

On that state board of health. given the problems that mississippi is facing and given what they are trying to fix in terms of policy, somebody like dr. reddix has to be seen by the state of mississippi as just a godsend. you'd think, right? the new republican administration in mississippi has just fired him. he had been serving mississippi on that health board since last july, but the new republican lieutenant governor in mississippi has now blocked his senate confirmation process and insisted that he be taken off this state board. the lieutenant governor, who you see there on the right, says...

It's the board that appoints that state health officer, that appoints the state's overall health plan, that approves the state's overall health plan for its overall health policies. luckily, on that board, mississippi is lucky enough to have somebody uniquely qualified to understand and help the state address this issue, that the state really, really wants to address. his name is carl reddix. he grew up in biloxi, mississippi, he went to the northeast for his education, he got his medical agree at tufts, he went to harvard to get his masters in public health. he also went to johns hopkins, to ...

Of republican politics today. the reason mississippi has taken this doctor out of the health policy process, that rather desperately needs him in mississippi, is because one of the consultantsies that dr. reddix has is with the jackson women's health organization. dr. reddix does not perform abortions. he is not paid by the jackson women's health organization. but if a woman is having an abortion or any other kind of procedure at that clinic and there is a complication and something goes wrong and that woman needs to be admitted to the hospital, dr. reddix has agreed to take over care of that ...

Of republican politics today. the reason mississippi has taken this doctor out of the health policy process, that rather desperately needs him in mississippi, is because one of the consultants that dr. reddix has is with the jackson women's health organization. dr. reddix does not perform abortions. he is not paid by the jackson women's health organization. but if a woman is having an abortion or any other kind of procedure at that clinic and there is a complication and something goes wrong and that woman needs to be admitted to the hospital, dr. reddix has agreed to take over care of that wom...