(Florida Independent) - Nearly 60 percent of Mississippi voters yesterday defeated the state’s controversial “fetal personhood” amendment, an initiative that would have defined life as beginning at the moment of conception. Though support for Amendment 26 was much stronger than in other states with similar personhood bills, concerns over the potential consequences of the bill trumped support in the end.THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: It pains me to report that if the 'Personhood Amendment' could not pass in conservative Mississippi, than there is nowhere in the United States where it will pass. Americans have made their choice, and I am deeply saddened to say that my fellow Southerners led the way. The excuses voters made for this decision are unconscionable when you get right down to what they are saying: "We the voters of Mississippi, refuse to acknowledge the personhood of a pre-born human being, because it might create some complications in some of the conveniences we hold dear, such as in vitro fertilisation and morning after pills. Therefore, we the voters of Mississippi have chosen to refuse to acknowledge the personhood of pre-born children and continue to allow their wholesale slaughter in our state for this reason."
Even some ardent anti-abortion advocates expressed concerns that the bill would not only outlaw abortion, but could affect in vitro fertilization and birth control use, as well.
National Right to Life was firmly opposed to Amendment 26, arguing that, if passed, the bill would lead to dozens of lawsuits — all of which could end up strengthening Roe v. Wade. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour also expressed reservations about the measure, but ultimately voted in favor of it anyway.
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If this is the attitude of the majority of voters in one of America's most conservative states, than indeed there is no hope for us whatsoever. I have serious reservations now if even the South could rise independently after the fall of the federal government. This vote has likely defined the conscience of America's new conservative base. It is a conscience that is malformed and selfish. If this is the best the South has to offer, than indeed there is no hope for America, or for Dixie, and it truly is "over" for Western Civilisation.
Do not expect the mercies of God anymore. Do not expect God I protect America from her foolishness anymore. Do not expect God to spare us from the full effect of natural disasters anymore. Do not expect God to preserve our nation, our culture, or our people anymore. As is evident by the most neoconservative vote in Mississippi, we have consigned ourselves to the complete and total chastisement of God. We have consigned our people and our very identity to cultural annihilation. Whatever America gets now in the way of natural disasters, economic collapse, terrorist attacks or senseless wars; we had it coming. I say this pointing the finger at myself as an American. For if tomorrow God decided to let a meteor strike my house, I would say as an American I deserve it. Why should I consider myself any different than my neighbours?
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It is indeed a sad day, I couldn't agree more. the sins of our nation are being made manifest - hypocracy (We are a "Christian Nation"), Idolatry (which I think of as "spiritual adultery" on a national level)and lack of charity to widows and orphans (for who is more a widow than a woman who chooses to abort her child, and who is more an orphan than the unborn child who is the victim?).
I've been reading both 1st and 2nd Maccabees - I hope things don't get that bad, but if you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.
Our Lady, Queen of All Nations, pray for us!
Cheer up sir knight. There is progressing evidence in neuroscience that may prove that the soul is connected to brain development. Therefore, we can not be so certain that the soul enters a tiny zygote cell (one thousandth the size of a grain of sand) at conception. It is very probable that the soul would enter at around the 3rd month of pregnancy where a fetus has sufficient brain development to house a soul. Banning abortion after the 1st trimester would be a reasonable compromise.
Pope Pius XII had no problems with the contraceptive pill. It was the same Vatican II Communist influenced modernists that were liberal on everything except contraception. Humanae Vitae has earned the wrath of the whole world upon the church because its arguments on human dignity are more focused on fetal dignity than the lack of dignity that incompetent and insolvent parents can cause a child.
Anonymous, I could not possibly disagree with you more. The consistent teaching of the Church has always been that human life (personhood) begins at conception. Redefining the teachings of the Church to suite your personal beliefs does not make something true.
This may be an issue of weak Christian leadership more than anything else....The Southern Baptist Convention didn't mention it on their website and the Mississippi Catholic bishops did not have an official position on the matter.
Wonder if it will pass in a state with a majority of Catholics like Texas.
Anonymous above raises a point - the soul resides in the brain, but is this true? does a "brain-dead" person cease to have a soul? I ask a question - Are we bodies with souls or souls with bodies?
The brainless body does indeed have a soul. I've been present at the birth of anacephalic children. Nobody knows better that someone who has witnessed that. I assure you. There is a soul.
Why so pessimistic? Why the despair? One election in one state about one amendment isn't the end of it. Yes, Mississippi is in the Deep South. Yes, it proudly displays the Confederate battle flag on its state flag. But Mississippi isn't the whole Confederacy. It wasn't even the first state to secede! The point here is that just because this time the pro-life cause has to step back doesn't mean it completely failed. Perhaps there will be success in other states in the South, or even outside the South in the Midwest. Resistance to abortion is also strong there, particularly in Michigan and Ohio. And whenever I read pro-life news websites they always say that the younger generation, that is, the Millenials, are becoming increasingly pro-life.
Do you not believe that this is all worth fighting for? "Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness," anyone? The election three days ago was a step backward, but not a loss. And even after the defeat at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee kept on fighting for two more years, even holding off Grant's massive siege at Petersburg for an astonishing 9 months with a much diminished army. And even after Lee surrendered there were Confederates like Sterling Price and Jo Shelby who refused to surrender to the Federals.
Our God is a merciful God. Christ will continue to help us as long as we keep fighting. We know that the Catholic, pro-life cause is righteous. Who are we to judge Him otherwise? "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah."
On wonders if, in a different context, Jeremiah Wright is correct...
The soul does not "reside" in the brain, it is united to the entire body as an organizing principle - the Latin for soul is "anime", it is what animates, gives life to the body (man, have we really been robbed of a decent education by dropping latin and greek). Moreover, the soul being immaterial, neuroscience cannot measure it, as it deals with the material. Certain blips may show up on a screen in response to electrochemical stimuli, but those blips are not the soul, or even eveidence of the soul in the sense that absence of blips indicates absence of a soul. If a self-directed organism is alive, by necessity it has a soul. The nature of the organism determines the nature of the soul. For humans, the nature of the soul is rational, but that does not mean the soul must be able to express its rationality completely at every stage. It can be present, but unable to express itself. The closest analogy I can think of is an artist's conception of his work of art - he can have it in his mind, but he cannot express it in a particular medium until he acquires th proper skills and puts brush to canvass, chisel to marble. At various stages, the canvass is blank, the work only partially expressed.
God has not deserted America. Get a grip. It’s a setback that’s all. Jesus has told us that He will never desert us and that’s enough for me. As to Chastisement - I don’t remember any red alerts being sent out from the Vatican as to dates and times ..........deal with the moment and don’t distress yourselves with imaginings
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