Stayed in Mississippi a day too long

[Jackalope]

The question is - why did you set foot in Mississippi in the first place? Only time I did was cause there was no other way to get from New Orleans to Florida.

[Zen Badger]

This from the comments section;

That's Republican "Small Government" for you. Big Brother spying on you in your bedroom while looking the other way when the wealthy make deals. A woman does not own her body, she does not have a right to do what she wishes with her body, so sayeth the religious right.

If Republicans win back the Presidency, we will see more of this but at the national level.

Quite....

[Faith No More]

So according to this, my wife and I are keeping three 'people' in cryo-storage right now.

[Zen Badger]

And if you have a wank you're commiting genocide.

[frankiej]

And if you have a wank you're commiting genocide.

That is the only reason I masturbate.

[The Grand Nudger]

So according to this, my wife and I are keeping three 'people' in cryo-storage right now.

You fucking monster!

"proposes to define a "person" as "every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof."-

Excellent, these people are of course stirring up their base against "cloning or the functional equivalent" as well. The personhood amedment being called a "good first step". Why make such a misleading statement, and why are the other two designations of "personhood" are being made illegal by the same bill? It seems to me that they just wanted a couple of filler words.
http://yeson26.net/why-the-personhood-am...s-cloning/

[Epimethean]

A sign that evolution may actually be at work, even in Mississippi:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/st...WRYziVOAfp

[Doubting Thomas]

Yeah, luckily the proposal was defeated by voters, which gives me a lot of hope. I know the "personhood" people are going to try this in a bunch of other states, but if a bible-banging state like Mississippi votes it down, I have at least some hope that other states will rightly reject it as well. The problem these "personhooders" have is that a vast majority of mainstream Christians use birth control, even Catholics despite the fact that the Vatican's official stance is that all birth control is a sin and any birth control which prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall is the same as having an abortion. So when these proposals to call fertilized eggs people come up, which will ban these kinds of birth control, people want to vote against them.

[Autumnlicious]

The "personhood" redefinition would be a complete legal nightmare.

Want to drive in the car pool lane? Just carry some embryos and you're good.

Shooting down that initiative was a no brainer.

In other news, less than half of Mississippi suffers from head-stuck-in-ass-itis.

I suppose this is a "victory" (even though it is far too close for comfort).