Mississippi set to vote on when personhood begins

[Tonington]

Mississippi to vote on 'personhood' : Nature News

On 8 November, Mississippi voters will not only decide who should lead the state, but also indicate whether they agree with the candidates about the status of embryos. The Initiative 26 ballot measure proposes to amend the state's constitution to redefine 'person' as "every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the equivalent thereof". If approved, the amendment would effectively bestow human rights on fertilized human eggs, making abortion illegal in the state in most, if not all, circumstances.
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Big implications, not only for abortion, but also for in-vitro fertilization.

 

[TenPenny]

Interesting concept. I suppose it will allow (or force) women to be charged with manslaughter if they have a miscarriage.

 

[Tonington]

If it passes, I wonder how long before the changes are put before a judge...

 

[Cannuck]

Interesting concept. I suppose it will allow (or force) women to be charged with manslaughter if they have a miscarriage.

I was just thinking of the same thing. Women (as well as men to a lesser extent) will really be put at significant risk of litigation or criminal prosecution if they do anything that could remotely be construed as putting the young'n at risk.

 

[Kreskin]

I presume this will mean that constitutionally there can be no drinking of alcohol for 7 weeks after having sex (the earliest one can have an ultrasound and rule out a fetal heartbeat). Maybe it should be illegal to have sex with an alcohol limit over .08 due to the potential risks to embryo development.

 

[Nuggler]

If it passes, I wonder how long before the changes are put before a judge...

Betcha they won't use a female judge.........................mehhhhhhhhh, Mississippi........hoonose!

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

And we know that Mississippians have no ability to cross state lines ...

 

[Tonington]

And we know that Mississippians have no ability to cross state lines ...

It would be pretty hard to sell a medical clinic where your business was IVF...

 

[Tonington]

Mississippi's "Personhood Amendment" fails at polls - CBS News

Well, it failed in the end.

 

[mentalfloss]

You're not a person until you're in my phone book.

 

[taxslave]

Interesting but not very funny. A bunch of illiterates get to vote on science. If the majority decide that the world is only 6000 years old does that become a law as well?

 

[petros]

A bunch of illiterates get to vote on science.

Speaking of illiterates...It was a vote on a legal term not on science.

 

[TenPenny]

Interesting but not very funny. A bunch of illiterates get to vote on science. If the majority decide that the world is only 6000 years old does that become a law as well?

If there was a referendum on the legal definition of the age of the world, then yes, it would.

 

[taxslave]

Speaking of illiterates...It was a vote on a legal term not on science.

No iit was a vote between science and theology.

 

[petros]

Pesron is a legal term. Human is a scientific term. No religion involved at all.

 

[TenPenny]

No iit was a vote between science and theology.

It was a vote on the legal definition of a person.


By the way, not everyone in Mississippi is illiterate.