Consequences of Granting Legal Status to a Fertilized Human Egg
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![A June 6, 2011 file photo shows "Personhood" supporters gathering at a prayer rally at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., to concentrate their efforts to get a proposed "personhood" constitutional amendment offered to voters. The amendment offers a definition of a person not now found in the Mississippi Constitution. - (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)](http://thedianerehmshow.org/sites/thedianerehmshow.org/files/imagecache/620xH/images/headline/111031_righttolife.jpg "A June 6, 2011 file photo shows "Personhood" supporters gathering at a prayer rally at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., to concentrate their efforts to get a proposed "personhood" constitutional amendment offered to voters. The amendment offers a definition of a person not now found in the Mississippi Constitution. - (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)")
A June 6, 2011 file photo shows "Personhood" supporters gathering at a prayer rally at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., to concentrate their efforts to get a proposed "personhood" constitutional amendment offered to voters. The amendment offers a definition of a person not now found in the Mississippi Constitution.
(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Mississippi will ask voters next week to decide whether to give legal status to fertilized human eggs. If the ballot measure is approved, abortion would become tantamount to murder. And in vitro fertility clinics and popular methods of birth control could be outlawed. Many observers deem it one of the gravest assaults on women's reproductive rights in decades. Similar efforts to redefine "personhood" are in the works in several states. Colorado voters twice defeated personhood initiatives recently. But many expect the Mississippi measure to pass. We'll talk about the latest tactics in the battle against abortion.
Guests
Robert Destro
professor of law; director, Interdisciplinary Program in Law & Religion Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America.
Jon Fasman
Atlanta correspondent for the Economist.
Suzanne Novak
senior staff attorney, Center for Reproductive Rights.
Walter Hoye
a spokesman for PersonhoodUSA; president of the Issues4Life Foundation and the California Civil Rights Foundation.
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If Mr Hoye believes a fertilized egg is a human being to be accorded all th rights of a human being, I would imagine that he also believes a funeral necessary in the event of a miscarraige But, of course he doesn't. That would be as ridiculous as the proposition that a fertilized egg is a human being. I only ask for consistency.
dhlinva wrote:
" I would imagine that he also believes a funeral necessary in the event of a miscarraige.... I only ask for consistency. "
Many families do that. What else ya got?