Disappointed that the Democratic candidate for MS governor supported the Personhood amendment. [View All]

[madfloridian]

I was just reading the First Read article at MSNBC and saw this section:

Big win for Democrats in Ohio and an abortion surprise in Mississippi

In Mississippi, abortion rights advocates scored a somewhat surprising victory as the Associated Press projected that voters would defeat Initiative 26, a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution that would have defined the word “person” to include every human being “from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.”

With nearly 60 percent of the precincts reporting results, 57 percent of voters were voting “no” on the ballot measure.

A statement from Planned Parenthood cheered the victory, saying “Mississippi voters rejected the so-called ‘personhood’ amendment because they understood it is government gone too far, and would have allowed government to have control over personal decisions that should be left up to a woman, her family, her doctor and her faith….”

Both the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor had backed the measure.

When both parties support measures like this that intrude on the rights of women, it is discouraging.

When we complain about Democrats supporting such measures we are told they have to do so to win in red districts. But that is a sell-out of the women in those districts.

Kudos to the voters on their thumbs down. They knew better than politicians of both parties.

The same thing is happening in the field of education. The Democrats are actually pushing the "reforms" that are harming public schools more than the Republicans are.

It is happening in the cutting of the safety nets for seniors and the disabled. Our party leaders are just as supportive of measures that will cut back on Medicare and Social Security as the Republicans are.

All the while we are told not to worry about these things...these attacks on womens' rights, education, Social Security, and Medicare. We are warned that things would be worse under Republicans.

We are urged to accept the fact that Democrats for 3 years have had to cave to the minority in order to win.

I am having trouble believing that.