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Mississippi Voters Rejecting Egg-As-Person Law
Whew. That was a close one.
Well, (fortunately), not really: Mississippi voters apparently saw through the anti-choice "personhood" constitutional amendment, which would have banned not just abortions but hormonal birth control, emergency contraception, miscarriages, IUDs, and in vitro fertilization by designating all "fertilized eggs" as human beings with full constitutional rights. With 41 percent of ballots counted, the measure was losing 41 to 59.
The proposal, an obvious ploy by anti-choicers to spur a Supreme Court challenge to Roe v. Wade, was widely expected to pass as recently as a week ago. Apparently, Mississippi women---99 percent of whom, like women throughout the United States, have used some form of birth control other than the rhythm method in their lives---decided they did not want their reproductive choices to be criminalized.
A small battle won, perhaps, but an important one in the war on women.
Well, (fortunately), not really: Mississippi voters apparently saw through the anti-choice "personhood" constitutional amendment, which would have banned not just abortions but hormonal birth control, emergency contraception, miscarriages, IUDs, and in vitro fertilization by designating all "fertilized eggs" as human beings with full constitutional rights. With 41 percent of ballots counted, the measure was losing 41 to 59.
The proposal, an obvious ploy by anti-choicers to spur a Supreme Court challenge to Roe v. Wade, was widely expected to pass as recently as a week ago. Apparently, Mississippi women---99 percent of whom, like women throughout the United States, have used some form of birth control other than the rhythm method in their lives---decided they did not want their reproductive choices to be criminalized.
A small battle won, perhaps, but an important one in the war on women.
