Why Mississippi's 'Personhood' Law Could Outlaw Birth Control

[Vehl]

On Tuesday (Nov. 8), Mississippi voters will decide whether fertilized eggs qualify as "persons" under the law from the moment when sperm and egg meet. But while the law is designed to challenge Roe v. Wade and outlaw abortion, doctors say that the wording is also likely to outlaw common methods of birth control, including the birth control pill.

That's because some of those methods may work, in part at least, by making the uterus inhospitable to implantation by an fertilized egg, said Pittsburgh family physician Deborah Gilboa. That could mean that some eggs become fertilized and are flushed out in women taking a birth control pill, using an intrauterine device (IUD) or taking "Plan B," the morning-after pill.

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Proposition 26, Mississippi's anti-abortion amendment, pushes legal personhood back to the moment of fertilization, a point that is not generally medically detectable. Proponents of the new law saw that it will not ban the use of hormonal contraceptives. However, "Yes on 26" members also write on their website that the group is opposed to birth control methods, "which act to prevent implantation of the newly formed human into the lining of the womb." They include in this category some forms of the pill and other hormonal drugs, as well as IUDs.

http://news.yahoo.com/why-mississippis-personhood-law-could-outlaw-birth-control-212609540.html

This is promoted by the party that shouts "get government out of our lives!"
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With people like these, is it any surprise that America is fast losing its position as a leader in innovation and science?

I wonder what would happen to America as a whole if all the religious fundies were put in a few of those midwestern states, and allowed to secede(or even kicked out) from the American Union. I predict fast economic growth and an overall improvement of living and social standards for the rest of the nation.

[Old and In the Way]

1. Webcams in every bedroom...weekly pregnancy testing of all women!

Gotta protect those blasto-citizens! We'll need millions of governmental busybodies hired to make sure we protect these cells!

[Vehl]

5. Lol

Yep....but but but wont that mean big govenment? : p
Yeah the hypocrisy of the republicans is without peer

[Chipper Chat]

2. Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi could form a new country:

"Fundica." It could secede from the Union and appoint Pat Robertson as its president. The Bible would be the constitution. Homosexuality could be outlawed-punishible by death or banishment to the United States. Missionary-position sex-only would be permissible and then only once a month. You would have to sign an affidavit stating that it is for procreation or face penalties. Children would not be allowed to have sex of any kind until they reach the age of 21 when it would be mandated that they marry. No public schools. Churches will control all schooling. The democratic party would be outlawed. There would be no taxes. Everyone must attend church on Sunday and tithe which will fund the government. Nothing much else would be important since fundies are obsessed with sex and religion. The borders would be closed to all except "christian visitors."
Other good names for the country are "Chastitia" "Falwellia" AND "Saint Ronnia"

[bpj62]

4. South Carolina

Your forgot to add South Carolina as well as South Dakota to that list. I have been telling my friends for years that the fundies want to ban all forms of contaception and they didnt believe me. This is an attack on womens rights palin and simple.

[Chipper Chat]

10. South Carolina can be part of "Fundica" if they will accept Charleston as an "intranational city."

Charleston is too precious to turn over to a bunch of stupid people.

[Vehl]

6. Funny yet true nt

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8. Fundica is good--I'm partial to Bumfuckistan!

[MH1]

3. Pay attention, folks. If passed, it will be up to the Supreme Court in 2 - 3 years.

WHO will be replacing any aging SC justice (there's a coouple of 'em ya know) after 2012?

THIS is what the 2012 election will be about.

And if it doesn't pass, this issue will be used to draw fundies to the polls. And for those of you who don't like Obama, just wait til you have 4 years of Santorum and a lifetime of the Supreme Court he appoints.

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7. Will a woman be able to use the carpool lane if she's pregnant?

>:)

[Vehl]

9. good question!

But hey...this raises another question...should these fundies also try to ban polluting industries? and gas guzzlers? as they indirectly kill "lives"? :D

[sakabatou]

11. If it goes into law, will miscarriages become manslaughter?

[beac]

12. Also massively complicates fertility treatment.

Although maybe rich white people will just travel to Eurpoe for that, as well as abortions (when those get outlawed too.)

But would all the "snowflakes" currently frozen in clinics have to be force-implanted if this law passes and is upheld?

Holy hell-- literally.