Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival on the Mississippi Personhood Amendment. Cross-posted with Say It, Sister! NOW’s Blog for Equality. Mississippi’s Initiative 26 — the so-called “Personhood Amendment” — hits close to home for me. I was born in Mississippi and attended school there until I graduated from college. My immediate family and many, many […]

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 […]

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 […]