Mississippi Voters Reject ‘Personhood’ Bid to Ban Abortion
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Mississippi voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have made the state the first in the U.S. to ban abortion by declaring that life begins at conception.
The so-called personhood bid lost yesterday by a margin of about 58 percent to 42 percent, with 96 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. The amendment to the state constitution would have redefined the term “person” to include “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the equivalent thereof.”