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Miss. defeats life at conception ballot initiative
Associated Press ^ | Nov.8, 2011 | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS

Posted on 11/08/2011 7:53:00 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi voters shot down a referendum Tuesday that would have effectively banned abortions in the state, rejecting an initiative that said life begins at conception.

The so-called personhood initiative was rejected by more than 55 percent of voters. If it had passed, it was virtually assured of drawing legal challenges because it conflicts with the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a legal right to abortion.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortions; dehumanization; dehumanizing; moralabsolutes; proabortion; prolife
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1 posted on 11/08/2011 7:53:05 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

speechless.


2 posted on 11/08/2011 7:56:03 PM PST by balch3
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Damn. If that can’t pass in Miss. it can’t pass.


3 posted on 11/08/2011 7:56:22 PM PST by Grunthor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heL2Czeraw)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

shame.


4 posted on 11/08/2011 7:56:39 PM PST by ken21
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It went too far, even some conservatives didn’t like it. Anytime this type of initiative comes up, it needs to me made clear that a women’s life would never be on the table, as in the case of a tubal pregnacy, for example. The Repulican governor made this same point.


5 posted on 11/08/2011 8:00:03 PM PST by independent in tx
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The majority have been brainwashed to reject basic scientific and biological facts.


6 posted on 11/08/2011 8:02:53 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: independent in tx

Simply establishing that life begins at conception, a scientific and biological fact, is now too extreme for “some conservatives”??

Then this country deserves to be doomed I guess.


8 posted on 11/08/2011 8:06:34 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: independent in tx

Totally true. Whether we like it or not, America is not absolute on abortion. Either way. Very few people support NO abortion even to save the life of the mother, just like only a few % support partial birth abortion (when it’s clearly explained and not couched in flowery liberal language).


9 posted on 11/08/2011 8:07:27 PM PST by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: MuttTheHoople

I believe that is a very disgusting thing to say.


10 posted on 11/08/2011 8:08:31 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Somehow the PP people never, ever get accusations of racism pinned on them, even though the statistics of black vs. other fetuses killed in abortion are what they are today and even though Margaret Sanger would have fervently wanted this outcome.


11 posted on 11/08/2011 8:08:56 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on Superman's cape/ya don't spit into the wind--and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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To: eyedigress

Irony poor much?


12 posted on 11/08/2011 8:09:40 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on Superman's cape/ya don't spit into the wind--and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sad. And our nationwide holocaust continues.


13 posted on 11/08/2011 8:09:50 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: eyedigress

I totally agree.


14 posted on 11/08/2011 8:10:58 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
There is a mighty judgment coming to this country and it will not be pretty.
15 posted on 11/08/2011 8:11:39 PM PST by guitarplayer1953 (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
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To: independent in tx

Did the text of the proposition come short in this manner, or did its “official explanation” come short? That this is never intended to apply in cases where the life of the mother is in danger?


16 posted on 11/08/2011 8:12:01 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on Superman's cape/ya don't spit into the wind--and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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To: BunnySlippers

It’s a disgusting FACT to NOTE!


17 posted on 11/08/2011 8:12:34 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on Superman's cape/ya don't spit into the wind--and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Tell me again how you impugn the entire state saying they “love dead black babies”. I don’t live there but this is racism at its core and nothing else.


18 posted on 11/08/2011 8:13:11 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: balch3
Actually it's a reflection of Mississippi voters actually THINKING THROUGH the implications of personhood for a fertilzed egg.

And, fortunately, it removes one of the ways that Republicans could blow the presidential election; probably the most disappointed people in the country that this failed are Obama and his advisors, who were probably salivating at being able to run against it nation-wide.

Heck, forget the miscarriages - what about the failure of a fertilized egg to implant in the uterus, which happens constantly?

Any supporters of the Mississippi proposal - if you or or wife actually discovered that you had a fertilized egg that failed to implant, would you name it, call all your family members, and have a funeral?

And if you're not TRYING to discover all the fertilized eggs that aren't implanting, isn't that gross contempt for human life?

19 posted on 11/08/2011 8:14:07 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: eyedigress

If love is an action rather than a feeling, the statistics argue it eloquently.


20 posted on 11/08/2011 8:14:43 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (ya don't tug on Superman's cape/ya don't spit into the wind--and ya don't speak well of Mitt to Jim!)
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