Mississippi trying to outlaw birth control

[delalluvia]

Ye gods, will these people never quit trying to make the US a place for Sharia law?  

It's LAW!!  People WANT this.  STOP trying to put women back into 2nd class citizenship and into the kitchen barefoot and pregnant and push everyone else back into the 1st century!!!  

http://news.yahoo.com/why-mississippis-personhood-law-could-outlaw-birth-control-212609540.html

[Marge_Innavera]

As everyone probably knows by now, the measure was defeated Tuesday -- one of the setbacks for the Right that's been sidelined by a GOP candidate's confusion over exactly what kind of damage he plans to do as POTUS.



Mississippi anti-abortion ‘personhood’ amendment fails at ballot box

"A constitutional amendment that would have defined a fertilized egg as a person failed on the ballot in Mississippi on Tuesday, dealing the so-called 'personhood' movement another blow.

"Mississippi would have become the first state to define a fertilized egg as a person, a measure which was aimed at outlawing abortion in the state but, opponents contended, would have led to all kinds of unintended consequences.

"In the end, those concerns won out in a strongly anti-abortion state. The amendment trailed 59 percent to 41 percent with more than half of precincts reporting. "



http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mississippi-anti-abortion-personhood-amendment-fails-at-ballot-box/2011/11/09/gIQAzQl95M_story.html

The article included a warning that the Religious Right isn't about to give up, and they'll probably be trying this in other states next year.

[ifyoucantfixit]

          Thats one for the good guys.  Thank goodness.  I was completely surprised.

           Iowa knocked down the union busting legislation also.  A good day.