Mississippi Personhood Amendment

[crystallinegirl]

Stolen from hexkitten

Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media

Comments

[roseaponi]

I don't know anything other than what you've just posted about it, but I don't see how this could possibly be interpreted to outlaw birth control ( because most birth control prevents conception, and you can't be a person until you're conceived unless we're also fighting for sperm rights and egg rights), or how it can be used to criminalize miscarriages (because most miscarriages are accidental or attributable to disease, and accidents and diseases aren't crimes). It would be hard for an otherwise healthy woman to make herself have a miscarriage without doing something self-destructive, so I'm not thinking that even needs to be made illegal.

So, um, I just wanted to point out that I can't buy into that part of your argument. I'm not saying anything about the amendment itself or the protests against it.

[roseaponi]

That doesn't seem as reliable as preventing conception - when I was researching my options, I didn't come across many. I went with the Mirena IUD, which may also prevent implantation, but primarily prevents conception. Some birth control may be argued to be outlawed under the amendment, but I don't think that's its purpose and there are alternatives.

[crystallinegirl]

Almost all varieties of the pill will be outlawed by this, as they work by preventing implantation; since the amendment says you're a person when the egg is fertilized, NOT when it's implanted, they would all be outlawed.