According to the On Point Radio program from Monday October 31, 2011 (available at OnPointRadio.org), in the next week or so (ironically the same time frame as when the 7 billionth human child was born), Misssissippi voters will get the choice to vote whether or not to legally decree a mass of cells to be "human" from the moment of conception. This would not only result in abortion to immediately become illicit in Mississippi and perhaps nationwide (if right-wing judges prevail), but the anti-choice movement will also have a victory in outlawing many forms of contraception. Not only that, but if a would-be mother's life or health is endangered by her pregnancy, the so-called rights of "the unborn" would likely supersede her health and her life.
As expected, backwards thinking, hypocritical conservatives who loudly decry "government interference" in their lives, vocally support "government interference" in matters of the bedroom and the private and Contitutionally legal and private decisions between a woman and her doctor. The government and Bible-thumping religious zealots should have no right to interfere in private bedroom and family planning decisions, especially when the world has seven times as many people as the planet should have (7 billion people to despoil the environment). Also, our government has no business imposing religiosity over science in defining what constitutes human life. (tbc?)
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