Special Issue of Law Journal on MS Prop 26
Supra, the online companion to the Mississippi Law Journal, housed at the University of Mississippi School of Law, is publishing a symposium that explores the legal ramifications of Mississippi's Initiative 26, commonly called the "Personhood Amendment."
The symposium features essays by nine lawyers and legal scholars from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New York and Massachusetts.
These nine essays examine how Initiative 26 will likely affect common health care standards and practices in Mississippi. In particular, the symposium explores tort law, Roe v. Wade, frozen embryo divorce disputes, in vitro fertilization, wills and estates, criminal law, access to birth control, feticide law, critical race theory and fundamental questions about the meaning of life.
A quote from "Proposition 26: The Cost to All Women":
Such laws granting full legal personhood to eggs, embryos, and fetuses, would, under the guise of adding one group to the constitutional population, subtract another: the women who carry and sustain them often at risk to their life and health.
Read the whole thing here: http://mslj.law.olemiss.edu/supra/symposia.html
The symposium features essays by nine lawyers and legal scholars from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New York and Massachusetts.
These nine essays examine how Initiative 26 will likely affect common health care standards and practices in Mississippi. In particular, the symposium explores tort law, Roe v. Wade, frozen embryo divorce disputes, in vitro fertilization, wills and estates, criminal law, access to birth control, feticide law, critical race theory and fundamental questions about the meaning of life.
A quote from "Proposition 26: The Cost to All Women":
Such laws granting full legal personhood to eggs, embryos, and fetuses, would, under the guise of adding one group to the constitutional population, subtract another: the women who carry and sustain them often at risk to their life and health.
Read the whole thing here: http://mslj.law.olemiss.edu/supra/symposia.html