Initiative 26 Goes too Far

Initiative 26 is a sweeping state constitutional amendment that threatens women's lives, especially young women's lives.

• 26 could result in denying women lifesaving medical treatments.
• 26 outlaws birth control pills, IUDs, and emergency contraception.
• 26 would allow the state to investigate and even prosecute a woman for a miscarriage.
• 26 could result in having a chilling effect on doctors and health care workers in treating pregnant women because of potential criminal charges.
• 26 has no exceptions for rape, incest, or to save a woman's life.

26 Is Big Government Intrusion

• 26 invites the Government right into the middle of the most private, personal decisions of our lives.
• 26 would ban birth control pills, IUDs, emergency contraception, and fertility treatments.

26 Endangers Women's Health

• 26 could deny access to life saving medical treatments for women battling cancer or possibly other fatal diseases because it could endanger a fertilized egg.
• 26 bans abortion under all circumstances, even in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life as the woman.

26 Is Big Government Intrusion

• 26 will cost the state millions from endless lawsuits and bizarre criminal charges.
• 26 implicates and may radically change over 4,000 state laws
• 26 will cost Mississippi millions of dollars in teen pregnancies, which already cost the state $155 million a year.