Who wants to bet for the under dog here? I'll put $100.00 down that they vote against this 'personhood' initiative.

Cythraul: Who wants to bet for the under dog here? I'll put $100.00 down that they vote against this 'personhood' initiative.

I'll take that bet, but only if the money goes to a charity of choice (mine would be Planned Parenthood). I think they will vote for this abomination and it will be left to the courts to strike it down.

Even National Review is skeptical:

What's not clear to me ... is why "distinct DNA" should be the criterion by which we judge personhood for moral and legal purposes. As Reason's Ronald Bailey has pointed out, 60 to 80 percent of human embryos - post-conception, with distinct DNA - are naturally destroyed by the woman's body. Are we to see this as a large-scale massacre of human beings, develop drugs to prevent it from happening, and require all women who have unprotected sex to take them? Certainly, we would be willing to take measures like this if post-birth infants were dying in comparable numbers.

Of course they aren't going to prosecute every Mississippi woman for the mass-murder of dozens of "persons" but if they don't follow the law, what's the point of the law?

It's telling that they have to twist morality to outlaw abortion, or as Andrew Sullivan puts it: "It is a little perverse to take the sacredness of life more seriously than the Almighty."

Bullshiat. Abortion is not birth control or a right.

/lives in Mississippi
// will be voting no in a couple of hours

The other day, our local newspaper printed several letters to the editor representing both sides of Initiative 26, the amendment in question here. The letters against the initiative provided facts, clear logic, and speculation about the unintended consequences the new definition of "personhood" would surely produce. The word "person" is apparently used hundreds upon hundreds of times in our state's legal code, and each of these instances will have to be re-calibrated with the new definition.

Without exception, the letters on the "yes" side were fraught with religious references, and if any of the letter writers dared address the legal ambiguities, they suggested that the state legislature and the courts will deal with them afterward. Nothing to worry about!

It seems like anyone with multiple brain cells, pro-choice or pro-life, would reject this initiative out of hand just due to the simplified wording of this thing. Yet, this is going to go down to the wire.

/// coming to a state near you next

Starry Heavens: Has anyone mentioned that this would ban all contragestive birth control methods? Oh, the article did? Fantastic.

Not surprising. Once the holier than thou crowd eliminates abortion, contraception is next. Straight people are just as big of a target as gays to them. They want to control all sex in this country.

sprawl15: badhatharry: Bullshiat. Abortion is not birth control or a right.

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Unborn children are people. They have a right to life.

There are Fundy robots everywhere, not just MS.

If you sit still in Los Angeles long enough (30 seconds) you will get hit up by a number of folks asking if you've seen Jeebus.

Me? Im pro-choice. Its the only logical way to do it. But, I dont see why some folks see fit to tell others how to live their lives or attempt to control them, it only makes for a worse life for everyone.

But some folks are small minded and will live their entire lives with an IQ below 100 and there is fark all I can do about that.

I hope to hell folks in Mississippi have the common sense to vote this crap out of existence - whoever decided it was a good idea needs a post birth abortion and quick. Fark them.

badhatharry: Unborn children are people. They have a right to life.

So, in order to not be a complete hypocrite, you protest wars on account of the unavoidable civilian deaths, right? Hello? Is this thing on?

Wonder if I can buy stock in tubal ligation? No? I can't make money to this.

CPennypacker: badhatharry: sprawl15: badhatharry: Bullshiat. Abortion is not birth control or a right.

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Unborn children are people. They have a right to life.

A zygote is not an unborn child

A bald eagle's egg is not a bald eagle. Yet, they can throw you in prison for touching one.