Mississippi personhood amendment is aborted

[stormwarden]

www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVCtTvsInDPKfmU_VrmOZ26aRbLw?docId=7cec6423066f4470abd20cb39ade6b83

To spell it out: The amendment that would have considered fetuses people has been eliminated, and nothing of value was lost. A very welcome sign of sanity given what that bill would have done.

[nightangel1282]

Thank FUCK for that! I can't believe they even TRIED that shit in the first place!

[gyeonghwa]

Thank goodness. I was actually thinking Mississippi would have voted for it. They have raised my expectations for them.

[Smurfette Principle]

Mississippi: subverting our expectations since 2011.

[Art Vandelay]

Wait wait wait people, this isn't the personhood for foetuses bill, it's the personhood for black people bill. Turns out its not quite so surprising after all.

[sylvana]

I think the thing that scares me the most about this whole story is that both the democrats and republicans were for the bill.

I am glad this didn't pass though, although, it only got 55% against, that is a pretty narrow margin. It means that there are still far too many people in Mississippi that think a fertilized egg is a person and demands more rights than the host it is feeding from.

[cestlefun17]

Also, Ohio voters overturned a law barring public employees from collectively barganing and voted to "opt-out" of the Obama administration's insurance mandate (not that they can, although it could be used in a court battle).

Thank you Ohio!

[Haseen]

Things would have gotten ugly if it had passed, unless it was immediately shot down by the courts. Either they'd blow up their budget trying to investigate every miscarriage, or the law would materialize only whenever it was convenient for a political witch hunt.

(Just kidding on the first option. That'd never happen.)

[tgrwulf]

I'm honestly not that surprised that a state like Mississippi would put that forward in the first place. Very glad it got shot down though.

[VirtualStranger]

Don't get too happy yet. This is the guy who just won the Mississippi election for Governor.

nems360.com/view/full_story/16321146/article-Bryant---Satan-wins--if-Initiative-26-fails?instance=secondary_stories_left_column

Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant said Monday that "Satan wins" if voters reject Initiative 26 that defines personhood at fertilization.

"This is a battle of good and evil of Biblical proportions," the Republican gubernatorial nominee told a pro-26 rally attended by about 30 supporters at Tupelo City Hall.

...

Cristen Hemmins of Oxford, an opponent, attended the event with four other anti-26 advocates. Hemmens, who was raped and shot twice during a kidnapping as a college student, asked Bryant, "Why can't you men have any sympathy for women like me?"

Bryant told her he is sympathetic to situations like hers but said he believes "that the child has some rights, too, even in that condition."

Bryant faces Democratic nominee and Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree in today's election for governor. DuPree also supports the initiative.

[nightangel1282]

Nov 9, 2011 23:10:29 GMT -5 VirtualStranger said:

Don't get too happy yet. This is the guy who just won the Mississippi election for Governor.

nems360.com/view/full_story/16321146/article-Bryant---Satan-wins--if-Initiative-26-fails?instance=secondary_stories_left_column

Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant said Monday that "Satan wins" if voters reject Initiative 26 that defines personhood at fertilization.

"This is a battle of good and evil of Biblical proportions," the Republican gubernatorial nominee told a pro-26 rally attended by about 30 supporters at Tupelo City Hall.

...

Cristen Hemmins of Oxford, an opponent, attended the event with four other anti-26 advocates. Hemmens, who was raped and shot twice during a kidnapping as a college student, asked Bryant, "Why can't you men have any sympathy for women like me?"

Bryant told her he is sympathetic to situations like hers but said he believes "that the child has some rights, too, even in that condition."

Bryant faces Democratic nominee and Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree in today's election for governor. DuPree also supports the initiative.

........ Well.... Mississippi had one brief, shining moment of sanity, at least.

I have to go back to crying for the future of humanity now. Excuse me.

[Admiral Lithp]

What unnerves me is less about who supports these bills & more the fact that people keep trying to circumvent the law with half-assed tricks. No, it's not even that. It's that we're surprised when they don't succeed.

[ironbite]

I guess this is a good time to lay down [urlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/mississippis-failed-perso_n_1083960.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003]this[/url] link.

And a nice select quote from it to get you in the right mood.

"Where do you go to buy a good slave today?" Longworth told HuffPost. "You can't get one. Why? Because people now see slavery as abhorrent, and one day people will see abortion as equally abhorrent, if not more abhorrent."

I'll leave open the portal to the angry dimension but still...

ABORTION=SLAVERY!? THE FUCK!?

Ironbite-just.....NO?!

[nightangel1282]

Nov 10, 2011 0:35:00 GMT -5 ironbite said:

I guess this is a good time to lay down [urlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/mississippis-failed-perso_n_1083960.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003]this

[/url] link.

And a nice select quote from it to get you in the right mood.

"Where do you go to buy a good slave today?" Longworth told HuffPost. "You can't get one. Why? Because people now see slavery as abhorrent, and one day people will see abortion as equally abhorrent, if not more abhorrent."

I'll leave open the portal to the angry dimension but still...

ABORTION=SLAVERY!? THE FUCK!?

Ironbite-just.....NO?![/quote]

Huh??? Um... wouldn't it be more accurate to say that forcing a woman to carry an unwanted child to term would be closer to slavery? I think that's what the far right really wants... for women to be completely subservient to their male masters, and pop out TEH BAYBEEZ every ten fucking months.

Fuck them sideways. If abortion ever becomes illegal in Canada and I wind up getting knocked up... fuck the law, I'm finding me someone to perform an abortion. I have many reasons for this:

1. TWINS run in our family and we're about due for someone to have another set. With the way MY luck is, I would be getting a Two-In-One deal. FUCK THAT! ONE would be hard enough for me to deal with!

2. For those of you who have seen my more racy pics in the nsfw, you know that I've got big hooters. I don't need my boobs to balloon to a size that would make Beth Chapman's jaw drop! My back and shoulders hurt enough as it is most days!

3. I am naturally emotionally unstable and would not mentally be able to handle a child. Children tend to annoy me in the first place, and I just KNOW I would be one of those mothers who would wind up shaking an infant out of frustration. I... don't... want to do that.

4. On my mother's side of the family, we have a history of difficult child births as well. My mother had c-section delivering all of us, and all of us had complications. I can't remember what the medical term for this was (it's a really long latin spiel and I only heard the conditions name like twice) but when my brother was born, he IMMEDIATELY had to be rushed into surgery because some of his intestines were not connected properly. My sister may have been a twin that remerged in the womb, because she was born with an extra half vertabrae at the base of her neck. To this day, if she suddenly twists her head wrong, or falls the wrong way, she could be paralyzed from the neck down. And I was born a month premature, had a cleft pallate, and actually came out dead and had to be revived. I'd rather not take the chance that that could happen to one of my kids too.

5. THERE'S ENOUGH FUCKING KIDS IN THE WORLD!!! If I want a kid, I'll adopt someone who has no one else, and the kid will be at an age where they are able to speak coherently so we can communicate with one another clearly.

[Thejebusfire]

"Where do you go to buy a good slave today?" Longworth told HuffPost. "You can't get one. Why? Because people now see slavery as abhorrent, and one day people will see abortion as equally abhorrent, if not more abhorrent."

Will someone tell this moron that slavery still exists today?