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Back to Sunday School: A Rabbi and a Minister Unpack ‘Personhood’

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.

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Race, Class, and Rights in Mississippi: How A Reproductive Justice Campaign Can Save the Pill and Save the Vote

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.

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Grassroots Opposition Grows to Mississippi’s Prop 26, the Egg-as-Person Initiative

Unlikely allies from both sides of the traditional “abortion” debate have come together in opposition to Prop 26, Mississippi’s egg-as-person initiative.

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Ohio Egg-As-Person Petition Rejected By Attorney General

Ohio State Attorney General Mike DeWine. Image Source.

DeWine calls the petition summary “not fair and truthful.”

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All Mississippi Gubernatorial Candidates Are For Re-Defining a Fertilized Egg As a Person

Johnny Dupree (left) with Phil Bryant (right). (source)

When your choices are anti-choice or more-anti-choice, it gets harder to pick a leader for your state.

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California Trying for Personhood Amendment? Really?

Image: Taylor's Workshop.

Of all of the states in the country, California seems like the last place such an effort would work.

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Nevada Trying to Add Personhood to Ballot — Again

Photo: Reno Nevada Trivia

They may have failed in 2010, but they promised they’d be back.

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Nevada Trying to Add Personhood to Ballot — Again

They may have failed in 2010, but they promised they’d be back.

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Mississippi Will Vote On “Personhood” In November

This image shows a sperm cell meeting & penetrating an egg, or conception, a process defined in this amendment as "personhood."

The push to make a fertilized egg a legal person got a boost in Mississippi.

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Ohio Pushes For Personhood Amendment

Because, you know, a 20 week ban and a potential 6 week ban just aren’t strict enough.

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