(Not sure if this or one of the news forums was the right place to put this. I guessed.) This is an excellent look at Mississippi's Personhood Amendment going up for a popular vote on November 8th. The linked Rachel Maddow segment shows everything that's wrong with it. You cannot support the Personhood Amendment without being a misogynist. Under this amendment, a woman could go to jail for having a MISCARRIAGE. Not an abortion, a MISCARRIAGE. As in if you fall down the stairs while pregnant, it's manslaughter. And you wouldn't be allowed to have an abortion or take the pill even if you were raped either. Even if trying to give birth would literally kill you, you would still have to under this law. Mississippi: VOTE NO!!!!!! A thousand times, VOTE NO!!!!!!
Look, I'm pro-choice and all but even I know MSNBC is extremely biased to the left. Perhaps you could post a link to the actual bill for us to view and read over? Not that I could vote on it though as I don't live in MS...
Not a problem. Here you go. Being that it's extremely simple, I doubt you'll have a hard time getting the message.
Your link also lists prominent supporters of this initiative which includes mostly religious organizations. A Biloxi newspaper letter addresses the religious element: Read more: http://www.sunherald.com/2011/10/29...k=addthis#.Tq1LTYKnLOU.facebook#ixzz1cGs8dw3K The cost of this initiative is also an important point. Mississippi has one of the highest poverty rates, but "conservatives" are pushing this law which will undoubtedly strain welfare resources.
This is wall to wall drivel. No mother is any more likely to be prosecuted for having a miscarriage than she is if her child is run over by a truck through no fault of hers, and nothing in the amendment gives the life of the unborn child preeminence over that of its mother in exigent circumstances.
Ah, I was waiting for the twist. And there it is. Everything you're freaking out about appears to be Rachel Maddow's and a handfull of pro-abortion nuts' subjective interpretations and speculations about the amendment. Nowhere did the actual story show any of those things explicitly stated in the amendment proposal. And then they toss in the rape story for good measure designed to tug at your heart strings even though pregnancies resulting from rape are an astronomically small percentage of all abortions. Don't let television dictate your values. Turn off the idiot box and think for yourself.
And your source is??? Read carefully: Notice it does NOT say, "the term "person" shall include every human being except in the case of rape, incest, or life of the woman." It says "every."
That is insane. What the hell is wrong with people these days? Treating miscarriages as fekking criminal. Good lord... I hope Mississippi's personhood amendment gets thrown out completely. If it does pass though hopefully the Supreme Court will deem it as unconstitutional.
It's sick, insane, unadulterated misogyny. It's been shown time and again that giving rights to the unborn reduces a woman to incubator status. You have to wonder if that's their goal.
The crazy hysteria of the abortion promoters along with their misinformation efforts will not likely stop it. It seems reasonable to me and should easily pass.
How about we start by you providing proof of the silly allegations above that miscarriages would be treated as murder.
I asked you first. Prove your allegation, "The crazy hysteria of the abortion promoters along with their misinformation efforts will not likely stop it." What proof of misinformation do you have?
Afraid you will first have to prove your assertion. Although the fact that you cannot actually proves mine.
Women are being prosecuted in other states for having miscarriages, so why should anyone believe that women in Mississippi would be treated any differently by this legislation?
It's not the amendment that will result in unjust prosecution, it's unjust prosecutors. Any law can be twisted to serve nefarious ends, as was so hideously demonstrated in RvW; but nothing in the Mississippi amendment gives the state leave to prosecute women for having miscarriages.
