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A VERY IMPORTANT ARTICLE I WANTED TO PASS ALONG ABOUT THIS ISSUE ...
On November 8th, the people of Mississippi are set to vote on an amendment - the "Personhood" Amendment - which would define a person as "every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof." This is being vouched as a Pro-Life move, a way to make abortion murder.
What people don't understand is that making a "fertilized egg" a person does way more than make abortion murder. It makes miscarriages suspected homicides, placental tissue (usually thrown away after birth) human, and many forms of birth control, including birth control pills and IUDs, murderous methods (because they interfere with a fertilized egg's implantation).
This is very different than outlawing abortion. Outlawing abortion prevents an intentional act of ending an established pregnancy. The Personhood Amendment makes intentional and unintentional pregnancy loss murder. It even makes a woman's period a suspicious act, given that up to 70% of fertilized eggs fail to implant, leading to unnoticed miscarriages. In these unnoticed miscarriages, most women remain unaware because their period isn't late and the fertilized egg doesn't live past a few days.
You can see that Pro-Life and Personhood are quite different.
If the Personhood Amendment passes, it could make IVF treatment illegal. IVF treatment often leads to embryos that are nonviable. These nonviable embryos never would have survived, or even come into being at all, if not for IVF technology. This is not the same as a pregnancy being aborted. This is a pregnancy that never would have occurred or would have ended in an early miscarriage.
Under the Personhood Amendment, these embryos are homicides, making the parents and fertility doctors suspected murders.
Also, the freezing of embryos would become illegal under Personhood. This means that all embryos would need to be transferred. This can lead to a risk of high order multiples, which could lead to the death or serious injury of the potential babies and the mother. If those same embryos were transferred one or two at a time, their chance at life would be much higher. Under Personhood, the action that would protect the unborn becomes illegal.
This could mean the end of fertility treatment options in Mississippi. That's less life, not more.
And if you think that you don't need to worry about this because you live elsewhere, think again. One state passing such a law can lead to others following. Activists are pursuing efforts to put the initiative on the ballot in at least nine other states next year, including the key presidential battlegrounds of Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, and again, Colorado, as well as California, Montana, North Dakota, Arkansas, and Alabama, according to Keith Ashley, of Personhood USA.
Instead of going into all the ins and outs, and wrongs and rights, of this amendment and the entire "Personhood Movement", I'm sharing some great links where you can read more on this important issue.
If you live in Mississippi, do not forget to vote NO on Amendment 26.
More on the problems with "Personhood":
The American Fertility Association - AFA
UPDATE: Mississippi 'Personhood' Amendment Vote Fails
What people don't understand is that making a "fertilized egg" a person does way more than make abortion murder. It makes miscarriages suspected homicides, placental tissue (usually thrown away after birth) human, and many forms of birth control, including birth control pills and IUDs, murderous methods (because they interfere with a fertilized egg's implantation).
This is very different than outlawing abortion. Outlawing abortion prevents an intentional act of ending an established pregnancy. The Personhood Amendment makes intentional and unintentional pregnancy loss murder. It even makes a woman's period a suspicious act, given that up to 70% of fertilized eggs fail to implant, leading to unnoticed miscarriages. In these unnoticed miscarriages, most women remain unaware because their period isn't late and the fertilized egg doesn't live past a few days.
You can see that Pro-Life and Personhood are quite different.
If the Personhood Amendment passes, it could make IVF treatment illegal. IVF treatment often leads to embryos that are nonviable. These nonviable embryos never would have survived, or even come into being at all, if not for IVF technology. This is not the same as a pregnancy being aborted. This is a pregnancy that never would have occurred or would have ended in an early miscarriage.
Under the Personhood Amendment, these embryos are homicides, making the parents and fertility doctors suspected murders.
Also, the freezing of embryos would become illegal under Personhood. This means that all embryos would need to be transferred. This can lead to a risk of high order multiples, which could lead to the death or serious injury of the potential babies and the mother. If those same embryos were transferred one or two at a time, their chance at life would be much higher. Under Personhood, the action that would protect the unborn becomes illegal.
This could mean the end of fertility treatment options in Mississippi. That's less life, not more.
And if you think that you don't need to worry about this because you live elsewhere, think again. One state passing such a law can lead to others following. Activists are pursuing efforts to put the initiative on the ballot in at least nine other states next year, including the key presidential battlegrounds of Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, and again, Colorado, as well as California, Montana, North Dakota, Arkansas, and Alabama, according to Keith Ashley, of Personhood USA.
Instead of going into all the ins and outs, and wrongs and rights, of this amendment and the entire "Personhood Movement", I'm sharing some great links where you can read more on this important issue.
If you live in Mississippi, do not forget to vote NO on Amendment 26.
More on the problems with "Personhood":
The American Fertility Association - AFA
- Understanding MS Initiative 26 (2011) and Its National Implications
- Why Beginning Life at Conception Carries Risks, Even for Anti-Abortion Activists
- I Am Zygote, Hear Me Roar
- Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed: Why does the government hate women so much?
- Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed: Mississippi Initiative 26 Threatens Infertility Treatment for All
- Placenta as 'Person' - Colorado's Personhood Amendment Ignores Basic Biology and Legal Issues
- The New York Times: Mississippi's Ambiguous 'Personhood' Amendment
UPDATE: Mississippi 'Personhood' Amendment Vote Fails
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