This year, voters have overwhelmingly rejected personhood initiatives sending messages to personhood proponents, as in: ‘over.’ ‘Finito.’ Not interested. The fat lady has sung and your idea is a loser.
You would have thought the writing was on the wall. Last November, voters in Mississippi decisively defeated a personhood initiative which, if passed, would have amended the state Constitution to grant legal rights to fertilized eggs, and in the process ban many forms of hormonal contraception and in-vitro fertilization, not to mention all abortions – without exceptions. Mississippians resoundingly rejected that proposal by a 16- point margin. And that was in Mississippi, arguably the most conservative state in the nation.
