{"id":25251,"date":"2011-11-08T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=25251"},"modified":"2011-11-08T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T20:32:10","slug":"bbc-mississippi-to-decide-if-fertilized-egg-is-a-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/11\/08\/bbc-mississippi-to-decide-if-fertilized-egg-is-a-person\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Mississippi to decide if fertilized egg is a person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi is voting on a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it the first US state to define a fertilized human egg as a person.<\/p>\n<p>The measure would confer rights on an embryo from the moment of conception, effectively outlawing abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.<\/p>\n<p>A survey found that that 45% of voters in Mississippi backed the measure, 44% were against, and 11% undecided.<\/p>\n<p>But even if it does pass, it is likely to be inundated with legal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Under the so-called personhood ballot, voters on Tuesday are being asked: &#8220;Should the term &#8216;person&#8217; be defined to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-15642138\">Read full article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi is voting on a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it the first US state to define a fertilized human egg as a person. The measure would confer rights on an embryo from the moment of conception, effectively outlawing abortion, even in cases of rape and incest. A survey found that that 45% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}