Mississippi Didn't Need Personhood Amendment to Ban Abortion

Mississippi Didn't Need Personhood Amendment to Ban Abortion | LifeNews.com: John McCormack, a pro-life writer at the Weekly Standard, a conservative publication, says the defeat of the personhood amendment “should not be taken as a “major setback” for abortion opponents” in part because it “did not have the backing of major pro-life groups, such as National Right to Life Committee and Americans United for Life, or major religious institutions. Mississippi’s personhood amendment was counterproductive, imprudent, and ill-defined. Had it passed, it wouldn’t have stopped a single abortion and would have merely given the Supreme Court another opportunity to re-affirm Roe v. Wade.” But McCormack says Mississippi doesn’t need the personhood amendment to ban abortion: “Mississippi already has a “trigger law” on the books to ban 99 percent of abortions when Roe v. Wade is overturned.”

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