I emailed a rabbi and a minister about the “divine laws” that Mississippi personhood advocates are trying to encompass in Initiative 26. Turns out some Mississippians could use a Sunday school refresher course.
In Mississippi, two ballot initiatives threaten the health and lives of women across the state, and the disenfranchisement of the largest bloc of voters in the state. A campaign based on a reproductive justice model can defeat both.
Unlikely allies from both sides of the traditional “abortion” debate have come together in opposition to Prop 26, Mississippi’s egg-as-person initiative.
DeWine calls the petition summary “not fair and truthful.”
When your choices are anti-choice or more-anti-choice, it gets harder to pick a leader for your state.
Of all of the states in the country, California seems like the last place such an effort would work.
They may have failed in 2010, but they promised they’d be back.
They may have failed in 2010, but they promised they’d be back.
The push to make a fertilized egg a legal person got a boost in Mississippi.
Because, you know, a 20 week ban and a potential 6 week ban just aren’t strict enough.

