From today's New York Times:
"A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8, and similar initiatives brewing in half a dozen other states including Florida and Ohio, would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person, effectively branding abortion and some forms of birth control as murder. With this far-reaching anti-abortion strategy, the proponents of what they call personhood amendments hope to reshape the national debate."By the time most of my visitors will have read this thread, the voters in Mississippi will have voted and the constitutional amendment will have passed with all its potential consequences or simply defeated and with some folks in Mississippi unsatisfied. Read the article describing the significance of this vote and return and discuss here what you think would be the consequences of such an amendment passing in other states or even become part of the United States Constitution. Should a fertilized human egg be a legal person and the intentional destruction of that person be consider a crime such as a homicide (murder)? ..Maurice.
