Morality is not a smorgasbord; you can’t pick what you want

That's right.  "Morality is not a smorgasbord; you can’t pick what you want".  These are the words of Tony Perkins, head honcho of the Family Research Council.

See, people must be told what they want.  They must be led.  The age old "Shepherd-Sheep" model seen in Christianity.

The Family Research Council are supporters of the Parental Rights Amendment, along with ALEC and a few other conservative religious extremists.  This has nothing to do about children, it is about the industry of child welfare.  It is about profiting off children.  Usufruct.

These people have defined "family" as a married woman and man.  Anything else is subject to a CPS action call.  This, is the acquisition of goods: child removal.  Remember, children need both parents

These are the ones who want to remove government from education, as I like to call it, the "Dumbing of America."  Alexander the Great was the one who implemented the first public education model.  Perhaps it is because of his sexual orientation that they want to end public education.

It does not matter.  I was in the trenches with these people when they first started their assent to power.  I know what I am talking about.  This is child abuse propaganda, disguised at its finest.

Witness an entirely new landscape of child abuse propaganda: politics.

The profit opportunities will be shared by all, conservative, liberals, independents and those who just want to keep a roof over their heads.  Making money off the week is a non-partisan, moral thang.

Family Research Council Blames Secret Service Scandal on Obama Repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'


Yesterday Janet Mefferd hosted Family Research Council president Tony Perkins on her radio show, where Perkins tied last year’s repeal of the 'Don’t Ask Don’t Tell' rule in the military to the recent scandal involving Secret Service agents who solicited prostitutes in Colombia.

Perkins claimed that since the President Obama has been “enforcing open homosexuality in our military” then he should not have been “upset” about the prostitution scandal, maintaining that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’s repeal led to “a total breakdown” in “moral order."

Perkins failed, once again, to mention that Congress repealed Don't Ask, Don''t Tell with the full support of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen.

Perkins said: "The same is true for what the President has done to the military enforcing open homosexuality in our military. You can change the law but you can’t change the moral law that’s behind it. You can change the positive law, the law that is created by man, but you can’t change the moral law, it’s wrong."

"So what you have is you have a total breakdown and you can’t pick and choose. Morality is not a smorgasbord; you can’t pick what you want. I think you’re absolutely right, this is a fundamental issue going forward because if we say ‘let them do what we want,’ what’s next? You cannot maintain moral order if you are willing to allow a few things to slide."

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Michigan Foster Care Conntract Wrist Slapping

This juicy report on Michigan's dirty secrets was submitted by Lori Schriber.

In a nutshell, this is what happens in Michigan foster care.

The state will stick a kid anywhere when the Child Protective Service workers come up with something to stick into the report.  The kid will eventually age out of foster care because there was such a racket going on with snatching poor kids under the Binsfield Legislation that it was an uncapped Medicaid funded racket with no one to stop them.

So as the kid is doped up on cocktail mixes of psych drugs and bounced from home to home, the final resting place is typically these institutional facilities which treat children like cattle.  I know.  I am an original source.

When a child is lucky enough to get a complaint heard, let alone investigated, nothing happens to the contracted entity.  They never, ever license revocation.  There is never contractual debarment.  There is never recovery of funds and there is never prosecution.  The only thing that happens is a slap on the wrist called a corrective action plan generated by the shit oil salesman who runs the facility

I recently encountered another form of shit oil salesman,* who had the audacity, after insulting my intelligence, to say me in a belittling and condescending tone, "Oh, it is commendable what you do for kids.".

Let me make this perfectly clear.  This is about me.  Beverly Tran.  I produced tangible goods and the state usurped my intellectual property as usufruct.  I am on a mission...

A cow hath calf ergo a book hath copy.

"qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur"
Holy Cross Foster Care Michigan Investigation Report April 21, 2011
 *Shit Oil Salesman:  a person who possesses the ability to talk shit to make you believe that you are nothing but a piece of shit unless you give them large sums of money.

Child Welfare Immunity With Starks's Law

Fortunately, no one in child welfare services can ever violate the physician self-referral law.

Here are a few examples: 

Administrator of a foster care agency will refer a foster child to his own individual therapy counseling services.

A judge presiding over an abuse and neglect case will refer the original guardians (parents) to her sister's foster care agency for unnecessary services.

Happy New Year CPS! - Baby LK Report For January 1st 2012

Happy New Year!  2012 is the year child welfare is held accountable for the hell they have created.

Baby LK recaps the week in news for the child protection industry.

Don't Threaten To Cut Your Social Workers Throat - Baby LK Report For December 18th 2011

Baby LK recaps the week in news for the child protection industry.

What truly needs to be addressed with the reauthorization of VAWA is the well documented fact that children are Legally Kidnapped by Child Protective Services on the grounds of "failure to protect".
The children are placed in foster care, funded by Medicaid, leveling the grounds for elongated stays in care and potential adoption all because victims of domestic violence are challenged with "providing for the necessary needs of the child.

This also places the fathers, whether a true perpetrator of the crime, in a position of being designated as 'unfit', severing their ties to their child whom they love.

VAWA is a wonderful promulgative  component for advocating for women in abusive relationships, but is it not time to include the children?  It is not secluded to the archaic racial classification label of inferiority.

Just another legislative misnomer for the multi-billion dollar child abuse industry.

Trust me, I will be having serious conversations with U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr., whether he likes it or not.

STUDY: More Than Half Of Black Girls Are Sexually Assaulted

A NEWSONE EXCLUSIVE REPORT

Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18, according to an ongoing study conducted byBlack Women’s Blueprint.

More than 300 black women nationwide participated in the study and 700 more are being sought to take in the survey by March 2012.

RELATED: An ‘Unlikely Victim’ Of Domestic Violence Speaks Out

Farah Tanis, Co-Founder of the New York-based organization and co-author of the study, says the issue of domestic and sexual abuse in the black community is rarely discussed and that a sixty percent rate should be a wake-up call to black women.

“A similar study which was conducted by The Black Women’s Health Imperative seven years ago found that that number was about 40 percent,” Tanis says. “So that means there is an increase and we need to stop neglecting that issue.”

Dec. 1, 2011, left to right, Tanya Williams, member of Black Women's Blueprint; Olivia Dowd, Outreach Coordinator, Black Women's Blueprint; Kareen Odate, Acting Director of the Center for Women's Development at Medgar Evers College; Farah Tanis, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Black Women's Blueprint (NewsOne Photo/Terrell Jermaine Starr)

D.C. Has No Love For Women Of Color

The study comes just as U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) introduced legislation reauthorizing the landmark Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) this week.

While domestic violence advocates praise both senators’ efforts to strengthen the bill, Tanis and other advocates who deal specifically with minority women are advocating for language in the new act that specifically allocates funds to communities of color. More specifically, Tanis and her organization are seeking funding for small community groups which have closer cultural ties to women of color that larger organizations don’t have.

Rita Smith, the Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a Denver-based national organization that develops policy on domestic violence issues, says smaller domestic violence groups are often better equipped to work with women of color than larger, more traditional organizations.

“Reports from these local communities to their national representatives has made it clear for some time that victims who are Latino, African American, Asian and Native American have not been served adequately by mainstream programs,” Smith says. “For some communities it is important to establish services that address the cultural, spiritual or immigration status needs of victims, and while some mainstream programs attempt to respond to those needs, they are not universally addressing them in sufficient numbers.”

VAWA, as it is currently written, does include language that allots “grants for outreach and services to under-served populations.” But no racial language is written into the act. Federal law prohibits legislation that earmarks government funding based on race.

Back in 2005 when VAWA was being reauthorized, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) fought unsuccessfully for race-specific language to be kept in a final draft of the act. He and several of his congressional colleagues expressed what they felt was Washington’s utter disregard for women of color.

“This language was necessary because the bureaucrats at the Department of Justice were ignoring communities of color when considering grants from domestic violence, rape prevention and other organizations,” Conyers argued in Congress.

Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.), also lobbied for stronger language to be including in VAWA.

“By addressing domestic violence in these communities in a way that understands their culture and honors their values, we greatly increase the chances of making a difference for women of color who are being abused,”  she said.

Washington’s historic rebuff to race-language provisions does not surprise Olivia Dowd at all.

An outreach coordinator for Black Women’s Blueprint, Dowd feels policy makers have something of an elitist outlook concerning which organizations should get funding and who should be in charge of managing the resources.

She says she has been in domestic violence sessions with mostly black women where she, despite her years of on-the-ground experience with women of color, often has to play second fiddle to a 20 or 30-something white woman with a graduate degree but lacks the sophisticated sass and ethnic intuition black women need to be uplifted emotionally from abusive relationships.

“OK, this is the deal. Take this ‘V’ and put it on your head and then another ‘V’ because you are warrior women so get over it,”Dowd said, mocking a traditional letter-game exercise that encourages women in recovery to express themselves.

“As black women, that’s how we talk to one another. That’s how we grew up. As oppose to being the white missionary saying ‘Oh, the poor natives, how bad! Let me kiss your wounds.’ [Black women] don’t work like that. That doesn’t work with us.”

Call To Action

Domestic violence advocates say black women should be particularly active in writing and calling their congressmen to support the reauthorization of the VAWA because it affects them more than any other racial group. In fact, Black women experience domestic violence at a rate 35 percent higher than white women.

Advocates say VAWA needs to include language that:

1.) Puts control of domestic and sexual abuse prevention in the hands of the community, and placing less emphasis on law enforcement. “Police are not the only answer,” Tanis says.

2.) Empowers members of immigrant communities who, for example, would go to their Vodoun orSanteria priest for help before reaching out to a more traditional source of assistance like a domestic violence hotline.

3.) Specifies the different facets of domestic abuse and that verbal violence should be legally prosecutable.

4.) Recognizes that sexual assault in black community is a growing epidemic that requires special attention and resources.

5.) Encourages and educates men, especially black men, on the issue domestic and sexual violence.

This final point, is perhaps the most contentious issue of domestic and sexual violence in the black community.

Kereen Odate, Acting Director at the Center for Women’s Development at Medgar Evers College in New York, says black women are reluctant to discuss sexual and domestic abuse for fear of “vilifying the black man.”

Odate says there has always been something of an unexplored history of sexually dysfunctional behavior in the black community that dates back to slavery. For example, Odate cites mating practices that forced black male slaves to have intercourse with female slaves as the origin of shame that keeps black communities silence about domestic and sexual abuse to this very day.

“You were raped,” Odate says, “but you weren’t raped because it was for the for purpose of making more kids to work on the plantation, so there’s a whole history involved.”

Tanis, citing the 60 percent sexual assault rate, urges black women to be more proactive in advocacy issues like supporting VAWA because no one else will fight for needs on Capital Hill.

“Its critical, whether or not we feel comfortable talking and doing something about it,” Tanis says”

HHS OIG Testifies On Antipsychotropics

Same thing happens in foster care except there is no testimony.
“Overprescribed: The Human and Taxpayers' Costs of Antipsychotics in Nursing Homes” Testimony of: Daniel R....

Bachmann would foster children as president

For the most part, children who are "at-risk" are recognized as being impoverished.  So, according to Michele Bachmann, she would use the White House as a government subsidized entitlement program?

I can see it now, the White House filled with the kids snatched and thrown into foster care because their parents are undocumented immigrants/

Gotta love Bachmann (canned laughter).

Bachmann would foster children as president

Bachmann would foster children as president

In an interview with CBS News Radio, Michele Bachmann said she would continue to raise foster children in the White House. Bachmann and her husband say they have raised over 20 foster children. (Nov. 22) (CBS News)



Note: Realistically, how would a US President have time to drive foster kids to all of their appointments, take them to visits, make it to court dates and all of the other wonderful things the foster parents bitch about?

LK: http://legallykidnapped.blogspot.com/#ixzz1enOeD853

Foster Children Given Harmful Antipsychotics and Tranquilizers as Frequently as Mentally Disabled

Foster Children Given Harmful Antipsychotics and Tranquilizers as Frequently as Mentally Disabled

Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post


Young children in foster care are being given antipsychotics just as frequently as children considered to be the most mentally disabled, according to a new report.


The drugs that the foster children are being dosed up with are powerful antipsychotic drugs traditionally given to schizophrenics – the same drugs that even mainstream health official are now speaking out against.


The report, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, examined how often young children in foster care are given two antipsychotic drugs at once. While some drugs include Risperdal, Seroqueland, and Zyprexa, some of these young children are also given major tranquilizers,which were originally developed to ‘treat’ schizophrenia but are now used as all-purpose drugs for almost any psychiatric syndrome.


Antipsychotics and other mental illness drugs given out like candy despite suicide link


As the pharmaceutical experts in the report admit, these foster children are simply being loaded up with antipsychotics with almost zero medical basis.

'The kids in foster care may come from bad homes, but they do not have the sort of complex medical issues that those in the disabled population do,' said Susan dosReis, an associate professor in the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and the lead author.

It is important to note that the usage of antipsychotic drugs has been found to result in a number of known dangers as well as even more concerning unknown dangers. In fact, many pharmaceuticals intended to ‘treat’ suicide can actually lead to suicide. However, suicide is not the only side effect of these drugs. There is significant research linking usage to childhood diabetes, an increased risk of depression, and weight gain.

More than 1 in 10 Americans are now taking suicide-linked antidepressants, and that number continues to climb as half of all Americans are expected to be diagnosed with at least one mental illness in their lifetime. Foster children are being given these drugs in excessive doses in unison with powerful tranquilizers, all in an attempt to make them more manageable for foster workers.

For years it has been known that foster children are among the most abused in the world, and mind-altering pharmaceutical abuse may be one of the worst kinds of such abuse. 

Please visit Natural Society for more great health news and vaccine information. http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/foster-children-given-harmful.html?

SystemSuckology: Penn State - CPS Rat Training In Progress!!!

SystemSuckology: Penn State - CPS Rat Training In Progress!!!

Sarah Palin on Jerry Sandusky, ex-Penn State assistant coach in child sex abuse scandal: ‘Hang him’

Michele Bachmann On Jerry Sandusky Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal: I'd 'Beat Him To A Pulp'



There have been two things that have been dominating my news feeds these days causing a massive increase of pro-CPS, foster care, adoption bullshit in the news. The first is the National Adoption Propaganda Day crap, you know the heartwarming stories with the fairy tale endings, of the kids who found their forever families and lived happily ever after in mass numbers all at once or rather the celebration of the sale of your children, which I refuse to advertise.

The second is the Jerry Sandusky Penn State Sexual Abuse Scandal, or whatever you wanna call it. It's interesting that a story that Legally Kidnapped linked to back in April didn't take off until last week.  What's even more interesting is the fact because of this one case, a ton of states are now reviewing and trying to strengthen their Mandated Reporting laws.  Hell, the whole world is.

South Dakota's mandatory reporting law scrutinized

Legislators check laws regarding who must report child sexual abuse

Child abuse mandated-reporter law could be expanded to include all MO residents

Child-Protection Laws Under Scrutiny In Wake Of Scandals

Tedisco Bill To Require Sex Abuse Reporting Gets Bi-Partisan Support

Nebraska Child Abuse Reporting Requirements are Broad

Who has to report child sexual abuse in Maine?



I even watched on Ustream as the Occupy Wall Street protesters tried to block the New York Stock Exchange, while watching CNN's Morning Pop Tart talk about nothing but various aspects of the Penn State Sex Abuse Hysteria Scandal at the same time.  In fact, I would guesstimate that perhaps 1/3rd of her show was Jerry Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky, Penn State,Penn State, Penn State, etc, and the only thing said about Occupy Wall Street, where all hell was breaking loose, was, "How do you feel about the Occupy Movement 2 months into it?  Tweet me."



Similarly, the Casey Anthony verdict brought about Caylee's Law, where missing children must be reported within 24 hours or it's a felony, so the anti abuse mob all across the country raged on with their get Casey campaign, which hasn't totally died out yet.  With the Penn State, this sudden wave of Sexual Abuse Hysteria takes root in the country.  This happened because this was a famous person, a terrible crime, and massive television exposure.

My buddy the Wex tells us...

Taking knee-jerk idiocy to the ultimate level, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) has introduced legislation to coerce every state into passing a law to require anyone and everyone to report any and every suspicion of child maltreatment to child protective services or the police.  It’s co-sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Ca.).

http://www.nccprblog.org/2011/11/update-child-abuse-and-penn-state.html

Apparently everybody else is crying out for the same thing.  Why?  Because it's a high profile case being shown on television all over the country.  And, although I totally agree with the Wex on this one, I think that the problem is much worse than we imagined.  I also think that this is a major shot against you and parental rights or family rights or children's rights as a whole because of what the Wex calls "Knee Jerk idiocy" which is of course, crossed with the Imperialistic Morality Parade, being brought about by a massive increase in advanced anal-retentive disorder.  Everybody jumps on the bandwagon because it's the in thing of the day.  It brings all the idiots together to cry out for the same thing which will only backfire on them the moment there is the slightest suspicion of child abuse or neglect.  It makes them momentarily feel important.

Therefore, I will demonstrate now with link after link in regards to how the sheep  are reacting to this one case.  And report everybody for everything, (please note the sarcasm there).

PS, the guy ran a foster care group home for boys, or something like that.

Pennsylvania child abuse reports skyrocket after Penn State

A simple rule for child abuse: If you see it, report it at once

Social worker talks about how to talk to kids about tragedy

Penn State case sheds light on abuse

I Didn't Tell!

Editorial: Make reporting child sexual abuse mandatory

Should Everyone be 'Mandatory Reporters' When it Comes to Child Abuse?

Child-Protection Laws Under Scrutiny In Wake Of Scandals

Best Way to Help Sexually Abused Children is to Believe Them

Why people don't report child sexual abuse

The Moral Obligation to Report The Sexual Abuse of Children

Spotting child abuse is all our responsibility

This, my friends is brainwashing on a massive scale. Nation wide Psycho-Social conditioning. Everybody report everything. No matter what it is. All the stupid people will fall for it because every child on the planet is in danger doncha know.

So lets play along. I say we all report CPS for child trafficking. What do you think?

Well, if she feels like this, then why won't she stand up and do something about the children being beaten, raped, murdered and drugged everyday in foster care?

Michele Bachmann On Jerry Sandusky Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal: I'd 'Beat Him To A Pulp'

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

DAVID GREGORY:
Joining me now, Republican presidential candidate, Congresswoman of Minnesota, Michelle Bachmann. Congresswoman Bachmann-- welcome back.

REP. MICHELE BACHMANN:
Thank you, David. Good to be with you this morning.

DAVID GREGORY:
There's a lot to discuss on the campaign trail. But I have to ask you first about this horrible event, series of events, at Penn State, and ask you whether you think, as a national figure, whether there is a role for Congress to play in investigating this, where you think the national conversation has to go from here on what has happened at Penn State.

REP. MICHELE BACHMANN:
Well, this is a national conversation. And the lens that I look at this through is as a mother. I'm a mother of five biological children and 23 foster children. And my heart, I think, is reflective of that of the American people. This is so horrific. On the level of a parent, I think about my children. If that was my child.

And I think my automatic reaction would be, even though I'm a small woman, I'd want to go find that guy and beat him to a pulp. I think that's what any parent would want to do when they think about their child. But clearly, this is very (UNINTEL) now, as it should be. And I have no doubt that this level of scrutiny, justice will be done. And this is a state matter. It needs to stay at the state level. And I think that it's good that the media's paying a lot of attention to this, because this should never happen to any child.

DAVID GREGORY:
Just one more on this. You say it's a state matter. As you know, the Department of Education is looking into this, as well, to see if there is an area where federal law applies. Do you think it's a matter for Congress to get involved? And as you know, Congress can look at anything. They did in terms of steroids. They could look at it in terms of institutional abuse or a conspiracy of silence.

REP. MICHELE BACHMANN:
Well, I think that the pendulum swings, and when something horrific happens, people's automatic reaction is, "Somebody needs to do something." But it doesn't necessarily mean that this issue should be kicked up to Congress. I really do believe this needs to stay exactly in the jurisdiction where the offense occurred. Congress has a lot of other things to pay attention to. But I think this needs to be handled. And again, I think this is one place that the media gets beaten up a lot, but I think this is exactly where the media is needed more than ever, is to bring light on this situation. That's the best thing that can be done.

CPS Can Now Steal The Twinkle In Your Eye

Child Protection folks are ready to celebrate another victory by tagging prospective foster kids at the point of conception.

This is the best marketed scheme of population control I have yet to witness.  The implications are unconceivable.  Policies can be developed to adjudicate a termination of parental rights case before a woman is even impregnated.

I can see the next conservative initiative which will be mandatory sterilization to prevent intergenerational poverty and stop all the lazy people who will not get a job but will have babies to live off good christian tax payers.

How best to steal the twinkle in your eye than by passing a state constitutional amendment in support of the godly emerging market of human trafficking...oh, I mean "personhood".

Personhood measure divides conservative ranks

On Tuesday Mississippi voters will decide whether to approve a measure, Initiative 26, that would amend the state constitution to define the word “person” to include every human being “from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.”

On the surface, it would seem to be a favorable advance for the cause of abortion opponents but the nature of the measure has sparked concern among some anti-abortion advocates that the passage of the measure could eventually threaten already-existing abortion restrictions.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, told NBC’s Chuck Todd last week that he believes that life begins at conception but “unfortunately, this personhood amendment doesn’t say that. It says that life begins at fertilization or cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.” He said, “That ambiguity is striking a lot of pro-life people here as concerning.”

Nonetheless Barbour later overcame his misgivings and said he voted for the measure when he cast his absentee ballot in advance of Tuesday. He also complained Friday that a group opposing the ballot measure, “has called people's homes and deceived voters into thinking I'm opposed to Initiative 26, the Personhood Amendment. As I've previously stated, I voted for the Personhood Amendment.”

Opinion: Human rights for fertilized eggs? Initiative at odds with science

Despite his vote, Barbour was articulate in explaining why some anti-abortion advocates think the Mississippi measure is either misguided or may lead to unintended consequences. 

He said, “Strategically, there’s some national organizations that think this may mess up trying to get more pro-life policies adopted nationally.”

He also said, “I am concerned about some of the ramifications on in-vitro fertilization (and) ectopic pregnancies, pregnancies outside the uterus in the Fallopian tubes. That concerns me, I have to just say it.”

Jennifer Mason, a spokeswoman for PersonhoodUSA, a Colorado group which is supporting the Mississippi measure, said its proponents “were able to answer his concerns and that’s why he voted for it.”  Mason cited a study by a conservative group, the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, which determined that Initiative 26 would not outlaw in vitro fertilization.

A statewide vote has a lot of women in fear over the future of certain forms of birth control. NBC's Than Truong reports.

But, in an opinion piece in the Mississippi Business Journal, Jonathan Will, director of the Mississippi College School of Law’s Bioethics and Health Law Center, who opposes the measure, said “If two out of three pre-embryos are lost in the (in vitro fertilization) process, this would seem to be an unacceptable loss of life. If we are committed to pre-embryonic personhood, we should be committed to banning IVF and other similarly risky fertility treatments until such technologies are safe for all persons (including pre-embryos) involved.”

Prominent conservative lawyer James Bopp, who has argued several abortion and free speech cases before the Supreme Court and is the general counsel for the National Right to Life Committee, said that lower federal courts would be likely to strike down the Mississippi measure, if it were enacted, and that the Supreme Court would likely not review the lower court’s ruling.

But if the high court did agree to hear the case, Bopp said, there is a “very substantial danger” that a majority of the justices would adopt a stronger basis for finding that there is a fundamental right to abortion than the due process rationale Justice Harry Blackmun used in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

If that were to happen, Bopp said, the current state and federal restrictions on abortion, such as the Hyde amendment banning federal funding of abortions in the Medicaid program, and laws requiring parental notification before a minor get an abortion, would be swept away.

Bopp sketched out his concerns in a widely circulated memo, pointing to the argument that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made in her dissent in Carhart v Gonzales, the 2007 decision in which the justices upheld the federal law banning the procedure known as partial birth abortion.

A constitutional right to abortion, Ginsburg said, ought to “center on a woman’s autonomy to determine her life’s course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature.”

Mason said Personhood USA’s lawyers think Bopp is wrong. “What we’re expecting to happen with the personhood amendment is that abortion will be made illegal in Mississippi. And that is what the pro-life movement has been working for since the passage of Roe v. Wade -- to ensure that all children in the womb have their personhood rights recognized…. This is a definite way to see some actual results.”

A ballot measure similar to that in Mississippi was rejected by Colorado voters in 2010. Proponents of personhood efforts plan to try to get the measure on the ballot in Florida, Ohio, Oregon and Indiana in future elections.

Updating with a comment from Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project:

She said the group is hopeful that "voters will reject this attempt to allow government to interfere in the most personal health care decisions of Mississippi’s women and families.  However, should the amendment pass, all options are on the table -- including litigation. We will not stand by while thousands of women and families are placed at risk.”