(Mississippi) Uterine Control Act Fails

[LetTimmySmoke]

With 49% of precincts reporting, the Uterine Control Act has been defeated 42%-58%.

A win on social issues in MS of all places. The religious right got served.

[valerief]

1. Whew!

:applause:

[bluestate10]

2. EXCELLENT!!! nt

[hlthe2b]

3. Who is calling it?

I'm really glad....

[donheld]

37. .

:bounce:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Yay!

[graywarrior]

5. Sanity prevails

[burrowowl]

6. Good!

[unkachuck]

7. Congratulations to the fine state of Mississippi! Well done!....n/t

[RKP5637]

8. Great!!! n/t

[merh]

9. LOL - those christians in the privacy of the booth said

"oh shit, what if ..." and voted "No".

Sanity nothing - the righties, the conservatives, the faux christians have been about themselves and it dawned on them that this could prevent them from doing so much they believe to be their right.

[LetTimmySmoke]

12. Yep. In the end, even social conservatives are not going to give up their birth control.

[Rowdyboy]

13. I am, quite simply, stunned....

Very, very happy but stunned

:hug:

[merh]

27. I was worried it would pass

I am very happy it looks like it won't. (not gonna rejoice till the final numbers come in).

:hi: :hug:

[femrap]

10. THERE IS A GODDESS!!!!!

I have goosebumps. The people of MS didn't let me down. What a day!!!! I'm HAPPY after an election!!!! It's been a long time since I could say that.

Regarding OH...I'm dying to see if there was a bigger voter turnout today than last year when Kashit was elected.

Happy days!!!!

[RainDog]

11. k&r most important vote so far, to me.

[likesmountains 52]

14. Almost half of precincts reporting now, and it's down 60% to 40%..

thanks Mississippi!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. They couldn't afford the Kotex Police anyway.

[Taverner]

16. AWESOME!!!!

My body, my self

Your body, your self

!!!

[LetTimmySmoke]

20. As a male who occasionally smokes pot and thinks its no one else's business...

...I completely agree. My lungs, your uterus....

[Taverner]

22. As a male who smokes pot regularly - I agree

Our bodies are our own, not the state's

[LetTimmySmoke]

23. Well I think I'll light up a bowl in your honor.

[Taverner]

24. I will as well, for you and our brother Tim Linicum :)

[meow2u3]

17. Uterine Control Act?

:rofl: :rofl:

Funny!

[one_voice]

18. Excellent!!! n/t

[MountainLaurel]

19. Thank Maude

I've been trying to figure out how I can visit a family member in MS without actually driving in MS.

[DinahMoeHum]

21. Down goes the "Every Sperm Is Sacred Act"

:rofl:

[NightHawk63]

25. I used to live a rock's throw from MS.

This does my heart good and makes me feel not so hopeless about MS.

[ellie]

26. Thank god almighty!

[Politicalboi]

28. Tonight

Michelle Bachmann cries. :cry:

[nolabear]

29. Thank goodness. Can MS get at least a LITTLE love around here now?

There are good people in Mississippi.

[Contrary1]

30. I have only one thing to say about that...

:woohoo:

[likesmountains 52]

31. Wow..thanks Mississippi!

[catabryna]

32. I so glad that I got this one wrong! nt

[gtar100]

33. That's really good news. But that 41% still is a little unnerving.

That's not an insignificant number of our fellow human beings who feel the need to enforce their personal beliefs on others. If only they could channel that concern for life into things that really made life better - like education, clean environments, healthy food, affordable healthcare, economic fairness, overcoming poverty, alternative energy sources...just to name a few. Even if the premise in their belief was right, this measure wouldn't do a damn bit of good.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

34. My grandparents left MS after World War I.

after they got their master's degrees from Mississippi A&M.
They went to Texas which is why I landed here.

I took my grandmother back to Kosciusko for her 60th high school reunion, when I was young in the 1970s.

After I saw what her relatives said about black people, I decided Texas was a bastion of liberalism, comparatively speaking.

I thought, "Wow, they don't even think black people are people. I wasn't raised that way."

[efhmc]

35. A law not about life but about control.

[myrna minx]

36. I'm so relieved. Thank you Mississippi. K&R n/t