On November 8, the people of Mississippi will vote on an amendment to the state’s constitution that will define personhood. Article III of its constitution would be amended to read:
“The term ‘person’ or ‘persons’ shall include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.”
The proposed constitutional amendment is, according to Personhood Mississippi, to insure that “abortion will be outlawed in our state; cloning and other forms of medical cannibalism will be effectively stopped; and a challenge will be set up to Roe v Wade.”
When does life, a particular life, and life in general really begin? Thirty-five years ago when my son was born I wondered – with wonderment – about the mystery of birth and of life.
My experience was that the idea of a beginning to life appeared somewhat ludicrous. Everything, it seemed to me, was a part of a beautiful process whose beginning would be impossible to determine.
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