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Mississippi 'Personhood' Amendment Tackles Abortion and Contraception

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lawhawk10/26/2011 11:24:22 am PDT

And since the Federal Supremacy clause would govern, the anti-abortion portion should be stricken down because the federal law (Roe and its progeny) supersede the state law restrictions. But that wont stop them from trying this angle to ban abortion.

As for its chances at the ballot, I haven’t seen any polling on it. It did manage to have enough signatures to make the ballot.

Here’s the 3 initiatives on the MS ballot.