Mississippi Court Rules "Personhood Amendment" Will Stay on Ballot Next Year

Feminist Wire (Ms. Magazine): Mississippi Personhood Amendment to Appear on Fall 2011 Ballot:

On Tuesday, Hinds County Judge Malcolm Harrison ruled against the ACLU and Planned Parenthood in a case that sought to remove a "Personhood Amendment," an anti-abortion initiative, from ballots next year in Mississippi. The measure "would amend the Mississippi Constitution to define the word 'person' or 'persons', as those terms are used in Article III of the state constitution, to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof."

If the initiative passes, it would not only put a woman's right to an abortion in danger, but also threaten oral and emergency contraception, IUDs, in vitro fertilization clinics, and stem cell research. . . .