Miss. High Court jumped into the vat of the 'unborn'

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http://churchandstate.org.uk/2011/09/mississippi-voters-can-decide-personhood-of-the-unborn/


Mississippi voters can decide ‘personhood’ of the unborn, court rules


Voters in Mississippi will be given a chance to decide whether life begins at conception, a controversial abortion-related ballot initiative that the state’s highest court has refused to block.

The Mississippi Supreme Court late Thursday allowed Measure 26, also known as the Personhood Amendment, to appear on the state ballot November 8. The decision was a rejection of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and abortion-rights groups.

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Mississippi is the only state with a “personhood” initiative on the ballot this year. Similar measures are being planned for next year in Florida, Montana and Ohio, say supporters. Efforts it at least five other states are in the planning stages.

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The other measure endorsed by the Mississippi court would require voters to present state-issued identification when they vote.
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avoid Mississippi

[CrispyQ]

1. We've had some form of this shit on the ballot a couple of times in CO.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/2010-colorado-personhood_n_335510.html

The Colorado Independent:

A version of the anti-abortion initiative soundly defeated by Colorado voters in 2008 is making its way to the 2010 ballot, this time reworked as an "egg-as-a-person" initiative.

This new version would move the legal definition of a person further back into the reproductive cycle, granting cells the full spectrum of citizen rights. Opposition groups, including Colorado genetic and fertilization researchers, say the law would have spiraling consequences, that it would put women at risk and freeze current work in medicine and reproduction.

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Nothing will "put women in their place" more than taking away their reproductive rights.

I wish all young women would read "The Handmaid's Tale." It can happen here.

[asjr]

2. So now there will be an entire state to

tell women what they can or can not do with their bodies.

[Pool Hall Ace]

3. If life begins at conception, does it continue after birth?

[Creideiki]

4. Of course not. That's crazy talk.

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