Ohio’s attorney general has rejected the wording of an amendment that seeks to define a human being from the moment of conception. Attorney General Mike DeWine told Personhood Ohio that the group must rework the wording of its amendment before it can be approved.
The “personhood movement” has recently grown legs in Wisconsin, where state Rep. Andre Jacque (2nd Assembly District) has promised to introduce a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would change the definition of a person to include “preborn” babies. The intended effect of “personhood” amendments is to More…
A new study released this week by the conservative Tax Foundation shows that Florida has the fifth lowest unemployment benefits in the country.
A group of Mississippi State University students held a protest against the state’s so-called “Personhood” amendment yesterday.
Sightings of a very large sheen of oil in the Gulf of Mexico have had coastal residents and fishermen worried for over a month. But in a statement issued yesterday, the Coast Guard says the sheen is not from BP’s now-capped Macondo well, which caused harm to both Florida’s
In what has become an all-too-familiar refrain among the more radical members of the anti-abortion movement, Personhood Mississippi is comparing abortion rights to slavery.
A website touting Mississippi’s Amendment 26 says that, at its core, the “Personhood” movement is about challenging legal decisions: “When a court makes a More…
This week, the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee released a report on Medicaid that outlines cost-saving measures decided upon by 31 Republican governors. Among the policy recommendations is a proposal to require the federal government to pay for the care of undocumented immigrants.
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