As a journalist, I try to remain impartial; or at least see both sides of an issue…but I was seriously concerned about the trend this may start in the bible belt, and other conservative states.
Is Roe v. Wade in trouble?
You decide. Here’s the CNN info. Go to the haynesherwayct Facebook page and post your comments.
Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) — Mississippi voters rejected an amendment to the state constitution that would have defined life as starting at conception, and outlawed abortion and many forms of birth control if passed.
“I think voters rejected a measure they understood to be dangerous,” said Felicia Brown-Williams with the Mississippi for Healthy Families Campaign. “They really tried to manipulate values around faith and family.”
If the amendment 26, or “Personhood,” had passed Tuesday, it would have re-opened the national debate on abortion. Court challenges would have set the measure on a path for the U.S. Supreme Court and a showdown in the far right’s mission to overturn Roe V. Wade.
“We are not conceding because we did our duty,” said Les Riley, a Mississippi citizen and a petitioner of amendment 26. “We have obeyed God … it is not tolerable that they kill children.”
read more here: http://articles.cnn.com/2011-11-09/politics/politics_mississippi-election_1_mississippi-voters-anti-abortion-initiative-amendment?_s=PM:POLITICS