JACKSON, Miss. – An effort to put abortion bans into state constitutions is looking for its first victory next month in Mississippi, where voters are being asked to approve an amendment that could provoke a court fight over the ruling that broadly legalized the practice across the United States.
Supporters hope the so-called personhood initiative declaring that life begins when a human egg is fertilized will succeed in a state that already has some of the toughest abortion regulations in the U.S. and only a single clinic where the procedures are performed.
While Mississippi is the only state with such an amendment on the ballot this fall, efforts are under way to put the question to voters in at least four other states in 2012.
Any victory at the state level would likely be short-lived since a life-at-fertilization amendment would conflict with the U.S. Constitution. Leaders of the movement say their ultimate goal is to provoke a court fight to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established a legal right to abortion.
Opponents say defining life as beginning at fertilization could block some common forms of birth control and deter Mississippi physicians from performing in vitro fertilization because they'd fear criminal charges if an embryo doesn't survive.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/17/life-at-fertilization-initiative-has-hope-in-miss/#ixzz1b2I0yrAJ
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