Mississippi rejects anti-abortion "personhood" amendment
By Virginia SmithNovember 9th, 2011, 12:45 pmComments (8)
Much to the relief of rational adults everywhere, a significant majority of voters in Mississippi struck down Proposition 26, the highly contested "personhood" amendment that would have defined life as beginning at conception.
The proposition offered an extreme definition of life beginning at conception, which would have rendered abortion illegal even in cases of rape or incest, and outlawed methods of birth control that begin after an egg is fertilized, including the IUD. Close to sixty percent of voters rejected the amendment, in part due to language that would have put the new law in direct opposition to Roe v. Wade.
Unfortunately, Personhood USA, the group behind Proposition 26, seems undeterred in spite of losses on the issue both in Mississippi and Colorado, and has plans to put similar measures on the ballot this year in Florida, Montana, Ohio, and Oregon. Some people just can't take a hint.
Commentarium (8 Comments)
Okay, would they please call their stance pro-fetus instead of pro-life. I mean do they really care what happens to a kid conceived from rape, incest, or basically any other means. It seems to reason if you are pro-life you would at least be pro-WIC, pro-Medicaid, and pro any other program that would allow an underprivileged or unwanted child to have basic health and nutrition. But, I really don't see that from the pro-choice. So, please call yourselves what you are, pro-fetus.
If you believe that WIC, Medicaid, and "any other program" hurt more than help in the big picture, you wouldn't agree with that. Not everybody accepts the premise of the argument in the same way. We'd all do much better trying to understand each other's premise than just using your own prism to make others into something we already understand.
Hmmm....Sure.
So if a zygote is a person, and "corporations are people, my friend", does that mean shutting down a corporation = abortion = murder?
For a thousand years, the church told us that life begins with the first breath, and ends with the last. So certain of this were church leaders that for years they fought against mouth-to-mouth as an abomination, and considered those who were resuscitated as approximately zombies.
It isn't the definitions that bother me, it's the absolute certainty. Fanatics are dangerous to a civilized society.
Indeed!!
I don't want to stereotype or hyperbolize, but the entire state of Mississippi is dumber than a rock.
I love America minus the dumb states.
Dear Personhood USA,
Fuck off and die.
Love,
Mr. Man and his junk
Now you say something