Having soundly been defeated at the ballot box, the Personhood initiative in Mississippi has been resurrected via the new governor of Mississippi, Phil Bryant and his allies in the state government. For the first time, Mississippi's state government is solidly republican and so the will of 58% of the voters is being ignored.
A grass-roots campaign has been started to oppose this back door legislation. Here is an excerpt from the petition site.
http://signon.org/sign/no-means-no-stop-personhood?source=s.em.cp
&r_by=1329818
On November 8, the people of Mississippi voted resoundingly to reject the so-called Personhood Amendment. We--mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, daughters and sons--did not reject the initiative because we were misled. We did not reject it because we were confused, or because of scare tactics, or because of media bias. We rejected the Personhood Initiative because we believe that families--not the government--should make their own medical decisions.
Since the initiative's failure, Governor-elect Phil Bryant and the Mississippi legislature have threatened to trample the democratic will of Mississippians and pass Personhood through the legislature.
It's time for the voters of Mississippi to tell them once and for all: no means no. We are the 58%. And we vote.