Mississippi FTW!

[lillibet]

The proposed amendment to the Mississippi constitution that would have extended "personhood" to the moment of fertilization has been defeated by the voters.

Thanks, voters!

Comments

[deguspice]

Yeah!

Though it might have been interesting to let the courts strike it down.

[lillibet]

Intellectually, I can agree. But taking chances with this stuff is really terrifying to me.

[gale_storm]

Intellectually, I agree with you. But there are no intellectuals who want this stuff...

[firstfrost]

I think "It would be interesting to let bad things happen to people so an eventual point will be more strongly proved" is easy to say when you're in no danger of being one of the people that the bad things happen to...

[deguspice]

If it had passed and the challenges made it to the Supreme Court, there's a good chance it could have gotten struck down once and for all, instead of having personhood bills popping up all over the place (I believe was voted down twice in Colorado).

But the Supreme Court can't act until a personhood law gets passed and someone gets convicted under it.