Mississippi Initiative #26 - Personhood Amendment
Actual Wording:
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.
I don’t see what the hubbub is.
In the process of in vitro fertilization, more than one egg can become fertilized when sperm is introduced. If person is defined as the time of fertilization, then the process of in vitro fertilization creates more than one person.
If one fertilized egg (person) is implanted into a woman's uterus, what becomes of the other fertilized eggs (persons)?
The law would limit, if not prohibit, this approach to fertility.