Clearly, the author(s) of the initiative overreached. No sensible person would vote to ban abortion to save the mother's life, or in vitro fertilization. The fact that it failed even in Mississippi is evidence enough. What a ludicrous initiative.
Somewhat surprising. However, it would've banned abortion in case of rape, and would've, at the very least, applied a lot of pressure on doctors who thought that an abortion was necessary to save the life of the mother. It also would've essentially outlawed in vitro fertilization and banned many forms of birth control.
http://www.wlox.com/story/15993170/m...uHEHE.facebook
Mississippians vote against Initiative 26
Posted: Nov 08, 2011 9:34 PM CST Updated: Nov 08, 2011 9:45 PM CST
JACKSON, MS (WLOX) - Initiative 26, also known as the Personhood amendment, failed to pass Tuesday. The controversial measure would have made abortion illegal in Mississippi. The initiative asked voters if the term "person" should be defined to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the equivalent thereof. Opponents had said Initiative 26 would have had far reaching and dangerous consequences that could endanger a woman's health.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
Clearly, the author(s) of the initiative overreached. No sensible person would vote to ban abortion to save the mother's life, or in vitro fertilization. The fact that it failed even in Mississippi is evidence enough. What a ludicrous initiative.
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -O'Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four
if any place in this nation needs more abortions it's mississippi.
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A glimmer of intelligence out of MS?
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
even the current Republican governor had spoken out against it, saying the wording virtually guaranteed it would be overturned by the Supreme Court......
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Barbour's announcement was probably one of the bigger parts of the campaign. There was a pretty huge shift in the later days of the campaign, from a large majority for, to a split electorate, to it's eventual 60-40 defeat. I initially thought it was certain to pass; but, after reading about the effects of its wording, it became apparent that it was a lot more radical than it initially seemed. Extending the ban on abortion to cases of rape alone makes the anti-abortion position much less popular. I also think that if it were possible to ban abortion by essentially declaring it murder, states would've done so already anyway.
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