Miss. Defeats Religious Right’s ‘Personhood’ Bill
Fantastic news: the insanely misogynistic “personhood” bill has been defeated in Mississippi.
But they’re not giving up.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would’ve declared life begins at conception, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a legal challenge to abortion rights nationwide.
The proposal was pushed by a Colorado-based group, Personhood USA. The group’s co-founder, Keith Mason, says he intends to renew efforts in Mississippi, either through legislation or through another ballot initiative.
The group is trying to put similar initiatives on 2012 ballots in Florida, Montana, Ohio and Oregon, Nevada and California. Mason said the group plans to pursue life-at-fertilization legislation next year in Alabama, Wisconsin and Michigan.
