Personhood: Symbol or Substance?

by Elizabeth Waibel
Feb. 22, 2012
 
Although state Sen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, says it's unlikely the Mississippi Legislature will take up the debate over personhood this year, efforts by state lawmakers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the country are gaining steam.

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Personhood Resolution in House

by Elizabeth Waibel
Feb. 21, 2012

As the window for introducing bills in the Mississippi Legislature closes, the personhood debate has once again surfaced.

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Personhood Mississippi: We Are Listening to Voters

Personhood Mississippi founder Les Riley sent out a statement this morning praising Personhood legislation in the Oklahoma Senate and promising further efforts in Mississippi that will address voters' concerns about contraception and in vitro fertilization.

Follow jfp.ms/personhood for more updates. Here is the statement, verbatim:

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Personhood Redux

by Elizabeth Waibel
February 15, 2012

Just three months after voters turned down a Personhood Initiative, at least one legislator is trying to get it back on the ballot.

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Person of the Day: Sen. Joey Fillingane

by Elizabeth Waibel
Feb. 14, 2012

Personhood supporters and detractors are still trying to sort out the ramifications and nuances of an anti-abortion resolution introduced yesterday. Sen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 555, seeking to amend the state Constitution to "protect the…

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Fillingane Introduces Anti-Abortion Resolution

Within the last couple of hours, Sen. Joey Fillingane introduced a resolution to amend the state constitution "to protect the life of every unborn child from conception to birth."

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Personhood: No Means No

by Valerie Wells
January 18, 2012

Lysistrata had a plan to end the 20-year Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. In the year 411 B.C., she gathered women in the warring region together for an important meeting. Then she told them her simple plan for a…

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Personhood Heads to the Capitol

Just over a week into the legislative session, we’re already seeing some movement on “personhood” bills, to define when human life and legal protections begin, similar to Initiative 26, which voters turned down in November.

Les Riley, founder of Personhood Mississippi, told the Jackson Free Press this…

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Personhood Stalled in Nevada, Arkansas

by Elizabeth Waibel
Jan. 6, 2011

As Mississippi voters rejected a proposed personhood amendment last November, Personhood USA and other supporters of the measure already had plans underway to promote similar initiatives in other states.

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Arkansas AG Tells Personhood to ‘Redesign’ Proposed Ballot Initiative

Earlier this week, Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel sent sponsors of a proposed personhood ballot amendment back to the drawing board.

Among other objections, McDaniel said the proposed measure was misleading and ambiguous, and did not contain enough information about how the…

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Personhood’s Next Move

by Elizabeth Waibel
Nov. 23, 2011

Religious fervor illuminated much of the dialogue at a Yes on 26 event just moments after voters refused to pass a constitutional amendment to declare that people with legal rights exist at the moment of fertilization. Supporters of the initiative…

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Personhood Supporters Shocked, Undeterred

by Elizabeth Waibel
Nov. 9, 2011

See also Grassroots Mamas: 'We Did It!'

Supporters of Initiative 26 were unprepared for defeat Tuesday evening, as a group of about a hundred gathered at AJ's on the Lake in Ridgeland after the polls closed…

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Grassroots Mamas: ‘We Did It!’

by Valerie Wells
Nov. 9, 2011

Just before 10 p.m. last night, Lori Gregory Garrott ran out of her Fondren home, stood on the front lawn and looked around before shouting, "We just won!" She yelled again, louder: "We just won!" The co-founder of Parents Against…

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Mississippi Deals Personhood Movement a Resounding Defeat

Nov. 8, 2011 -- Tonight was not a good night for the national Personhood USA movement that tried to push Initiative 26 in Mississippi. The opponents took some 60 percent of the vote by the time it was called as a loss. The JFP had a crazy busy night on…

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Personhood Polls Surprisingly Close

by Elizabeth Waibel
Nov. 8, 2011

In this typically anti-abortion state, a recent poll suggests that the fate of the "Personhood Amendment" might be too close to call. Public Policy Polling found that 45 percent of voters support the amendment, 44 percent oppose it, and…

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