Christian Extremists Target Mississippi For Abortion Ban

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The American Family Association (AFA) has issued an action alert asking their supporters (i.e., Christian extremists) to spread the word about what they are calling the Mississippi Personhood Amendment. The amendment, which they hope to get on the state ballot in 2010, would redefine "personhood" along religious lines as beginning at the moment of conception.

Obviously, this would amount to a statewide ban on abortion. The alert describes abortion as "the greatest moral evil in our nation today" and compares it to the Holocaust.

If the alert is correct that 89,000 signatures from registered voters will be enough to get this measure on the ballot, it is hard to imagine that we will not find ourselves voting on it in 2010. Women in Mississippi could soon find their reproductive rights severally curtailed.

My favorite part of the alert, by far, was the following request:

Please help us get this important information into the hands of your pastor.

Evidently, pastors in our state do not even have to pretend that they aren't telling congregants how to vote for fear of jeopardizing their tax-exempt status. Disgraceful!

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