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Mississippi votes against embryos’ human rights, but national debate continues
Yesterday, Mississippi voters headed to the polls to weigh in on a highly controversial ballot initiative that would give embryos in that state ‘personhood’ status, and wreak havoc on reproductive therapy and research in the process. Despite the fact that the constitutional amendment, known as Initiative 26, was supported by Republican and Democrat candidates for Mississippi Governor as well as the state’s Attorney General Jim Hood, it ultimately failed as 58% of the voters rejected it. The ballot initiative came out of an ongoing nation-wide campaign launched by Personhood USA, a Colorado-based Christian non-profit. Many doctors in Mississippi are letting
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