11/7/11: MS Voters to Define “Person”

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Tomorrow in Mississippi, voters will have a chance to weigh in on a ballot initiative that would change the state’s constitution to declare that life begins at conception.

The leader of the effort is attorney Brad Prewitt who says “Fighting for preservation of the unborn in the state of Mississippi — that’s a cause worth our strongest efforts and our most committed prayers,”

Proposition 26 would amend the state constitution to redefine the term “person” to include “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the equivalent thereof.” That change would cut off access to abortion by equating it with murder, making no exception for rape, incest or when a woman’s life is in danger.

Activists on both sides agree the amendment will likely pass and also predict lawsuits will follow.