In search of jobs, residents of the Great State of Mississippi will go to the polls tomorrow and vote on … personhood! Unfortunately, the writers of the amendment decided to unilaterally redefine the medical definition of conception in a way which will turn thousands of women, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists into child killers. But maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong — by we I mean me and by all wrong I mean trying to argue science and reason with knuckle-dragging Bible thumpers who think Genesis is a science text.
How about this, you, Mister or Miss God-fearin Amurican, come home one day and discover someone has just moved into your house. They’re eating your food and drinking your drinks. It’s cold outside, subzero, so if you kick them out it might kill them. Maybe you’d let them stay for a bit, but would anyone blame you if you called the cops and had them dragged out? Whether they’re a person or not doesn’t even enter into it, what counts is its your house, you own it. Replace that intruder with a microscopic blob of tissue and now you get the idea of just how ridiculous you seem to the outside world. And maybe now you know how women feel when you try to force them to observe your beliefs inside their own bodies.
This is a real litmus test for Mississippi. It will show just how smart or stupid they are. If they get it wrong, they will be judged harshly on their decision; and rightly so. If they get this right, they should throw out, at the next election, the asshole politicians who promoted such drivel.
I know you’re probably being sarcastic here, but I always find it curious that people feel the need to refer states, especially their home state as “The Great State of X” as if they were asserting some kind of superiority.
In pretty much every demographic measure (education, poverty, literacy, health coverage, teen pregnancy), Mississippi ranks at or near the bottom. By what standard should anyone call it “Great”?
Well thats your answer, the scale of the cockup is great indeed
If this passes how does the legal system deal with two people in one body? How does equal protection under the law work? Can the Catholic Church let the mother die to save the life of the fetus person? Wouldn’t that be murder just the same as aborting the fetus person is claimed to be? Would there be a religious exception to murder? Does a religion then have the right to decide which of two equally protected people under the law can be killed? Who will have that right?
A zygote person would not be a citizen until and if it’s born. Would they be considered an illegal alien until birth? In some places sheltering an illegal is a crime.
My brain hurts!!!
The really scary things about this is that since the language of the bill used the term “fertilization” rather than “conception” and the Mississippi Personhood Amendment web site admits that the interpretation of the law regarding basic issues like birth control pills, IUDs, IFV will have to be decided by the courts. I thought that conservatives were AGAINST legislation from the bench. (except when they agree with it of course)
According to Politico, the polling on the bill currently breaks out at 45% for, 45% against, and 10% undecided. Politico Story If you know anybody in Mississippi, please get hold of them and try to influence their vote.
Steve
Who is sometimes sorry that his state even bumps up against MS.
No, because women count for less than fertilized egg persons.
The possibility that this will pass and end up in front of the current US Supreme Court makes me quite nervous.
Everyone in Mississippi, just needs to start filing criminal charges. Every husband should file charges on his wife every time they have unprotected sex and don’t get pregnant.
Every time a miscarriage occurs, the doctor, nurses, and mother should have criminal charges filed against them.
If you here that someone is using birth control, file charges against them.
Even if it’s not criminal charges, you should file civil charges and get those evil murders off the streets and out of the bedrooms.
I think that would end it pretty quickly.
Or, this could end up on the books and everyone realizes that it would be insane to actually use it and it quietly drifts along on the law books for a couple hundred years. Just like Texas’ “any position other than missionary is illegal” law.
I just had a thought, if this stupid crap passes, does it mean that the age of everyone in Mississippi will be incresed 9 months? That’d have to be good news for people near the age of consent or close to being able to get a drivers licence