Phew.
I doubt this’ll be the last we see of this proposal, though. It will probably continue to pop up on state ballots for a while.
Paul Douglas says: Maybe I've been posting it in other places. Get confused sometimes....
Ben in Oakland says: All of us have emotional baggage. Healthy people TRY to limit it...
I wish it was more like 82 percent against. Fifty-five percent is cutting it close.
[...] still not finished!!! As TWO’s Jenny Blair mentioned today, Mississippi voters defeated the so-called Personhood Amendment that would have basically outlawed abortion and many forms of [...]
Dave, for Mississippi, we’re lucky we got even 55%.
Good news. My mother’s miscarriages were traumatic enough without the “small government” barging in to make sure she didn’t do something to cause them.
Good job Mississippi. We now do not have to spend time and money investigating miscarriages. Women of Mississippi, you are a little safer.
I agree Gary! The rejection of the personhood amendment is a good thing regardles of the percentages for or against. I wonder if the religious righties are going to demand a recount…
A recount would be pretty futile, Dave, considering there is a 130,000 vote difference between the “for” and “against” positions. (Only about 70 precincts out of 1876 state-wide haven’t reported their results.)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2011/by_county/MS_Initiative_1108.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS
Thank goodness!!
I agree that 55% is cutting it close, but in a religious backwater like Mississippi, that’s a lot.
I’m pleasantly surprised by this news. From all accounts that I was reading about this election, it looked like this amendment was all but certain to pass. It looked like the Pro-Amendment activists were getting all the media attention and support from the medical communities of Mississippi. I guess the people of Mississippi are not that easily duped after all. Good job.