What This is All About

Personhood Mississippi is a voter initiative to amend the Mississippi Constitution to define personhood as beginning at fertilization or “the functional equivalent thereof.” Its purpose is to protect all life, regardless of age, health, function, physical or mental dependency, or method of reproduction. We the people of Mississippi must collect and certify about 90,000 signatures from registered voters (equally divided throughout the state of Mississippi). Doing this will put this initiative on the 2010 ballot so that the voters can decide this issue for themselves. The entire proposed Amendment is as follows:

Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Mississippi: SECTION 1. Article III of the constitution of the state of Mississippi is hearby amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION TO READ: Section 33. Person defined. As used in this Article III of the state constitution, “The term ‘person’ or ‘persons’ shall include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.” This initiative shall not require any additional revenue for implementation.

(NOTE: Please understand that the inclusion of the word “cloning” in the proposed Amendment does not in any way condone cloning. There will be an article posted soon explaining why this wording is necessary.)