Tag: Personhood Amendment

Catholic Ministry States: Fetuses Are Not People

Filed in National by on January 24, 2013 10 Comments

Why would a religious organization who has been extremely vocal when it comes to abortion, contraception and the unyielding belief that life begins at conception suddenly claim that state law protects doctors from liability concerning unborn fetuses on grounds that those fetuses are not persons with legal rights.

Because they are being sued.

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Mississippi Personhood

Filed in National by on October 28, 2011 32 Comments

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.

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