Mississippi Rejects Personhood Amendment

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From Center for Reproductive Rights:

Closing the door to massive infringements on women’s reproductive rights in Mississippi, voters in the state rejected [yesterday] an extreme and dangerous “personhood” measure which would have amended the state’s constitution to define a fertilized egg as a legal person. The ballot initiative held the potential to not only ban abortion under all circumstances, including in cases of rape and incest or when a woman’s life is in danger, but also many forms of contraception and assisted reproductive technologies such as in-vitro fertilization.

The Center for Reproductive Rights called the defeat of the ballot initiative a tremendous victory for women in the state and across the country, and commended Mississippi voters for protecting women against a direct assault on their health and rights.

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  • Anonymous

    A bit of good news.  I’d been very concerned about this – good for Mississippi voters on this front.

    But this fight – nationally and probably still in Mississippi is far from over because the Right never gives up.

    • Yes — relieving to hear the news.  But the Right carries on with their quest for social control of women and access to female bodies.  The Constitution be damned!