Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has notified Personhood Mississippi that enough valid voter signatures have been certified to ensure a spot on the November 2011 ballot.
The Mississippi Personhood Amendment states "The term 'person' or 'persons' shall include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof."
Did you notice the guy from the Personhood campaign refer to "Wilberforce"? In case you don't know, William Wilberforce was a British politician who lead a movement to abolish the slave trade. For 26 years he would present a bill to end the slave trade and every year the bill would be soundly rejected. He never gave up and in 1807 the Slave Trade Act was passed.
Hearts and minds change as does public opinion. What was once looked upon as beneficial can, in time, become reprehensible ergo the ending slavery.
Justice Harry Blackmun, author of the majority opinion noted noted, however, that if "personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus's right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment (14th)."
This 4D image shows an 8 week old little person (aka: Child, baby, or infant.)
The race is on between Montana and North Dakota for the first Personhood legislation in our nation's history, as Montana's Personhood Amendment continues on to its House of Representatives, and North Dakota's Personhood legislation continues on to its Senate.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
- Thomas Jefferson
