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ianam1983

Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Oct 11, 2011 16:14

Originally posted by twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Reposted because this shit deserves more coverage. Ahem.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.

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minibot_love October 11 2011, 21:03:20 UTC

wait.. outlawing birth control? no pill, no condoms? It's going to be the 1940s all over again, and the suicide rates of young, stupid teenage girls or rape victims will leap astronomically. And how can a miscarriage be criminalized?? There can't be blame placed when that happens, and so many women already deal with depression and often enough suicide when they lose their baby that way, to label them as a criminal and a murderer because something in nature went wrong or there was an accident? That's crazy...

ianam1983 October 11 2011, 23:21:22 UTC

Yes, it's crazy. Welcome to Mississippi, apparently. They're trying to get this done in other states too, but in MS it looks like it may actually pass.

minibot_love October 11 2011, 23:52:50 UTC

Man that's scary. I grew up in Alabama and I went to college in MS and I live in Texas now so I know the mentality of the Bible Belt but dear God... I mean, I have mixed feelings about what justifies an abortion that I won't get into here because that's just asking for ranting, but this is beyond morality. This is undoing several decades of hard work of women's rights and freedoms.

This whole thing just sounds like a way to criminalize women for being women. Men aren't at risk for any of this - men don't get pregnant, men don't risk anything by not using a condom except an STD. What does the law say about the other half of the DNA of this new person they're trying to protect? Are the fathers going to be charged of criminal neglect by abandoning their pregnant girlfriends who will then probably end up killing themselves with a failed at-home abortion?

ianam1983 October 12 2011, 01:10:02 UTC

Oh, I have mixed feelings about abortion myself; I think that's only natural. But it MUST be allowed. Even at my most sentimental, I understand that. And that's not even going into the other stupidity that this bill covers. Fertilized eggs are people? Really? Screw you, Personhood Amendment. Don't make me move to Canada.