Mississippi voters can decide 'personhood' of the unborn, court rules

[mfcorey1]

CNN) -- Voters in Mississippi will be given a chance to decide whether life begins at conception, a controversial abortion-related ballot initiative that the state's highest court has refused to block.

The Mississippi Supreme Court late Thursday allowed Measure 26, also known as the Personhood Amendment, to appear on the state ballot November 8. The decision was a rejection of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and abortion-rights groups.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/09/mississippi.personhood/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[BlueIris]

1. Awful. nt

[xchrom]

2. I hate these initiatives. Nt

[sakabatou]

4. Me too

[sakabatou]

3. So if a woman has a miscarriage, will it be manslaughter?

These laws create slippery slopes.

[madrchsod]

5. only if a woman is poor

[baldguy]

6. Will embryos get to vote? Pay taxes? Serve in the military? Carry a passport?

If the mother is an illegal immigrant, will it be a US citizen?

[dsc]

9. with the exception of the citizenship, the rest are age determined

and thus irrelevant. I would think that citizenship might well transfer to the unborn.

[baldguy]

10. To be considered a human being under the law, a person has to be born.

They want to change that the moment of conception. That's basically a difference of age.

If they can change one, why not the others?

[dsc]

14. they could

but they haven't changed any of what you listed for years. I think, for example, that 16 year olds should be permitted to vote. I don't intend to hold my breath waiting for it to happen.

[Sirveri]

12. I think the embryo would have to be conceived here to count.

Though the law probably simply says 'born here'. Making the issue of conception pointless for citizenship tests. The rest is kind of silly. Children don't get to vote, don't pay taxes and don't serve in the military, so why would embryos be different?

[no_hypocrisy]

7. What's next for Mississippi? Voter referendum about "slavery"?

[LuvNewcastle]

8. As a Mississippian, I can tell you that

the people here are in no way qualified to make such a determination. Letting the voters make such a decision without any sort of education on the subject (except for what their preacher told them) is to make a mockery of our Constitutional system. If the state courts want to abdicate their responsibility (since SC judges are elected here), the federal courts should put a stop to this.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Just tell them it will cost them money.

Pocketbook precedes high morality.

[ensho]

13. if its not out of the womb and if its not breathing air, its not a person yet

however the breathing air religiously insane in Miss. are insane

[Creideiki]

15. You might want to talk to the people who ran the Colorado campaigns against embryonic Personhood

If we can turn this nonsense back in Dr. Dobson's backyard, there's hope to turn it back elsewhere.

If I recall correctly, it lost across almost every demographic.

[adhd_what_huh]

16. so...census workers will have to give pregnancy tests...