Mississippi to Vote to Define Embryos as People

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Across the US more and more prosecutions are being brought that seek to turn pregnant women into criminals...In Alabama at least 40 cases have been brought under the state’s “chemical endangerment” law. Introduced in 2006, the statute was designed to protect children whose parents were cooking methamphetamine in the home and thus putting their children at risk from inhaling the fumes. Amanda Kimbrough is one of the women who have been ensnared as a result of the law being applied in a wholly different way....During her pregnancy her fetus was diagnosed with possible Down's syndrome and doctors suggested she consider a termination, which Kimbrough declined as she is not in favour of abortion. Her baby was delivered by caesarean section prematurely in April 2008 and died 19 minutes after birth. Six months later Kimbrough was arrested at home and charged with “chemical endangerment” of her unborn child on the grounds that she had taken drugs during the pregnancy – a claim she has denied. “That shocked me, it really did,” Kimbrough said. “I had lost a child, that was enough.”Kimbrough is now facing a 10-year sentence if her case is not reversed on appeal — a 10 year sentence that will deprive her three other children of their mother. WAKE UP PEOPLE! - this is the kind of government persecution you might face if you vote in one of these candidates who have Signed A Pledge to make this kind of law a priority... all your ex (neighbor, co-worker...etc) has to do is accuse you of drinking/smoking pot/taking drugs/moving around too much while pregnant - and your miscarriage becomes a child abuse or murder trial. Google: Amanda Kimbrough, Rennie Gibbs, Pamela Rae Stewart, Bei Bei Shuai, Angela Carder "In the Pamela Rae Stewart case, Stewart's husband, who had heard the doctor's advice, ignored it and beat his wife.  Everything she did, he did -- they had sex together, smoked pot together, delayed getting to the hospital together -- but he was not charged with a crime, not even with wife-beating, although no one can say that his assaults were not a contributing cause of the infant's injury and death. ...  In Wyoming, a pregnant woman was arrested for drinking when she presented herself at the hospital for treatment of injuries inflicted by her husband.  Those charges were dropped (to be reinstated, should her baby be born with defects), but none were instituted against her spouse.  Approximately one in twelve women is beaten during pregnancy, a time when many previously nonviolent men become brutal.  We do not know how many miscarriages, stillbirths and damaged newborns are due, or partly due, to male violence.  But if it ever does come to be an officially recognized factor in fetal health, the duty of care would probably take yet another ironic twist and hold battered pregnant women liable for their partner's assaults."

Good news.

Once a corporation is legally defined as a person, anything goes.  That said, what possible benefit is there to being a person in Mississippi? I hope their courts and prisons fill up with women who miscarry.