Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival on the Mississippi Personhood Amendment. Cross-posted from RHRealityCheck. The 2011 Mississippi ballot Initiative 26 on Personhood and Initiative 27 on Voter ID exclusions may be one of the most important opportunities on the ground for the Pro-Choice and Reproductive Justice Movements to work together. In Mississippi, we are witnessing […]
Why Mississippi’s ‘Personhood’ Measure Is a Threat to Women Everywhere
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival on the Mississippi Personhood Amendment. Crossposted from Amplify Your Voice. On November 8, the state of Mississippi will vote on ballot initiative 26, which will attempt to change the Mississippi constitution to define human life as beginning at conception. The actual text of the initiative is as follows: Section […]
Protect Our Rights in Mississippi
The people of Mississippi will vote on typical election issues this year such as who will be their next governor and attorney general, but something besides candidates’ names will appear on the ballot. Two important ballot initiatives will be decided and both have the potential to roll back important rights. The first, Initiative 26, would define […]
Maine Secretary of State’s Confusing Anti-Voter Agenda
In Maine, Secretary of State Charlie Summers’ job it is to protect the voting rights of Maine residents, and yet he supports the legislation obviously suppressing that right. In June, upon Summers’ recommendation, Governor Paul LePage signed a bill into law repealing the state’s 38 year old law allowing same-day voter registration. This effectively strips […]