Mississippi politicians aren’t sitting still while they wait for the state’s only abortion clinic to close. Instead, they’re preemptively restricting abortion and even birth control access.
If Mississippi’s only clinic does manage to stay open it may not matter, since abortion might be banned all together anyway.
With the rejection of the “Personhood Amendment” in Mississippi and the rejection of Measure 3 in North Dakota, we see proof that Americans have a profound respect for religious freedom as the founders intended it.
As the so-called “Personhood” amendment goes down in defeat once more, anti-choice activists say the devil did it.
In a decisive and resounding victory in one of the most conservative states in the country, Mississippi voters defeated–by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent as of this writing–the dangerous Initiative 26, which would have defined a fertilized egg as a person with full human rights.
The polling has the Mississippi amendment to define fertilized eggs as people in a virtual tie.
Mississippi voters will be determining more than the direct rights of women in Mississippi when they vote on a personhood amendment on Tuesday. The vote will also measure how far the Christian right’s misogyny will go.
The Mississippi governor has not decided whether or not he will vote for the amendment that would give rights to fertilized eggs.
The New Jersey Governor is unwilling to take a stance for or against the Mississippi amendment.
When your choices are anti-choice or more-anti-choice, it gets harder to pick a leader for your state.
