Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Sunday that while he encourages people to get vaccinated, he’s also against larger vaccine mandates, noting that he believes “in individual liberties and freedoms and people can make decisions on what's best for them.”

Reeves told host Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that while he believes in the right to control one’s body, other factors have to be taken into account when it comes to women and abortion: “What I would submit to you, Chuck, is they absolutely ignore the fact that in getting an abortion is an actual killing of an innocent unborn child that is in that womb.”

This week, the Supreme Court is set to hear a case from Mississippi, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, regarding a law from 2018 that would make most abortions after 15 weeks illegal. The case is being widely watched given that some see it as a possible forum for the nation’s top court to overturn or limit the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.