Anti-abortion “personhood” law loses in Mississippi (click title to entry - thank you)
Voters in conservative Mississippi were rejecting a so-called “personhood” ballot measure that would have the effect of outlawing all abortions and challenging the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
The proposition on the Magnolia State’s ballot asked: “Should the term ‘person’ include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof?”
With half the vote counted, the measure was garnering only 43 percent of the vote. It was initially favored to pass, but lost support rapidly in waning days of the campaign. A Public Policy Polling survey last week found the state evenly divided on “personhood.”
Groups not usually associated with Mississippi politics — Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union — campaigned against the measure....
The proposition on the Magnolia State’s ballot asked: “Should the term ‘person’ include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof?”
With half the vote counted, the measure was garnering only 43 percent of the vote. It was initially favored to pass, but lost support rapidly in waning days of the campaign. A Public Policy Polling survey last week found the state evenly divided on “personhood.”
Groups not usually associated with Mississippi politics — Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union — campaigned against the measure....
The government cannot be so invasive into a woman's life that it controls an embryo at conception. It is not possible to have such a law nor should there be a law to enforce such an idea.
...“It does sound so ludicrous,’’ (click here) Derzis told me last Friday — so much so, she contends, that opponents were long complacent, and now have been left to scramble. “We were all behind the eight ball,’’ she said. “I think if we had another month here we could defeat this legislation.’’ But with a few days left, she wasn’t sure. Indeed, a poll released yesterday showed that 45 percent of the population supported the measure, and 44 percent opposed it...
