Mississippi Business Journal » Amendment 26 http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 ‘26’ campaign wants birth control out of the debate http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/09/%e2%80%9826%e2%80%99-campaign-wants-birth-control-out-of-the-debate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=%25e2%2580%259826%25e2%2580%2599-campaign-wants-birth-control-out-of-the-debate http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/09/%e2%80%9826%e2%80%99-campaign-wants-birth-control-out-of-the-debate/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:00:10 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=46941 Yes on 26 campaign director Brad Prewitt is quickly irritated at the mention of “birth control” and the possibility a Nov. 8 victory for his coalition’s “personhood” amendment would restrict doctors from prescribing contraceptives. His organization, he says, wants to outlaw abortion and the “morning after” pill in the state — not birth control or [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/09/%e2%80%9826%e2%80%99-campaign-wants-birth-control-out-of-the-debate/feed/ 1 Anxiety sets in among medical professionals as a vote on ‘personhood’ amendment nears http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/09/anxiety-sets-in-among-medical-professionals-as-a-vote-on-%e2%80%98personhood%e2%80%99-amendment-nears/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anxiety-sets-in-among-medical-professionals-as-a-vote-on-%25e2%2580%2598personhood%25e2%2580%2599-amendment-nears http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/09/anxiety-sets-in-among-medical-professionals-as-a-vote-on-%e2%80%98personhood%e2%80%99-amendment-nears/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=46923 Casting the human embryo into the Mississippi Constitution as a living person promises to bring “drastic change” to the way medicine is practiced in Mississippi, the president of the Mississippi State Medical Association predicts. The unknowns are immense, but you could see physician defections to other states and a migration of patients to Tennessee, Arkansas [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/09/anxiety-sets-in-among-medical-professionals-as-a-vote-on-%e2%80%98personhood%e2%80%99-amendment-nears/feed/ 0 Op-Ed: Life and Law — The commitment to pre-embryonic personhood http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/23/op-ed-life-and-law-%e2%80%94%c2%a0the-commitment-to-pre-embryonic-personhood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=op-ed-life-and-law-%25e2%2580%2594%25c2%25a0the-commitment-to-pre-embryonic-personhood http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/23/op-ed-life-and-law-%e2%80%94%c2%a0the-commitment-to-pre-embryonic-personhood/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:13:33 +0000 For the MBJ http://msbusiness.com/?p=46397 On Nov. 8, we as Mississippi voters, will have the opportunity to express our views about a proposed amendment to the Bill of Rights contained in the Mississippi Constitution (Amendment 26).  Amendment 26 seeks to define the term “person” to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof. [...]

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