Jim Hood Supports Personhood…Liberals Go Crazy
Considering that the pro-choice/ socially liberal community make up a minority not just in Mississippi, but within the Mississippi Democratic Party, and certainly among Democratic candidates and elected officials, we haven’t heard a lot of criticism toward Johnny DuPree for his support of the Personhood initiative. I had wondered where Jim Hood stood on the issue, and he staked out his position tonight, at least for a few minutes.
Posting on his Facebook wall, Hood said that he supports the Personhood amendment and will defend it as attorney general if passed. Here is the full text of the note: “Support Personhood! I want to make my position very clear. Personally, I have always honored the sanctity of life at every stage. As AG, I have defended every pro-life bill adopted by the MS Legislature. I have assisted our lawmakers with pro-life legislation and will continue to do so. I am the ONLY candidate in this race with a clear and consistent record of defending Mississippi’s tough anti-abortion laws. I support the Personhood Amendment, and, if adopted, will defend it if challenged!”
After posting this he got a negative response from liberals and subsequently took the note down. Here is the dead link.
He kept the statement up on his Twitter page, where you obviously don’t see direct responses as easily as Facebook:
It is also still available on his campaign website here.
Hood’s statement has also been re-posted on this Facebook page, “It’s Not Easy Leaning Left in Mississippi.” As you can tell based on the groups name, they don’t think much of it. Click on the link to see what I mean.
For various reasons throughout his career, Hood has been able to maintain support among both liberals and even a decent sized group of conservatives. I honestly would have thought he’d stay away from this, but for now I don’t think some upset liberals on the Internet are going to affect his re-election in one way or the other.
Keep your theology out of personal medical decisions. People who support this travesty have no idea what ramifications will come if this piece of unconstitutional legislation passes. VOTE NO!!
Since you seem to know it all, can you explain what ramifications will come? And how will these negative consequences occur?
Do you consider a clone a person? sorry I was all for it until I realized that some idiot repubic was using this inititive to give clone’s the same rights as real people. So, basicly if you support i26 you support cloning, and they can’t be called a clone. They must be called a person.
Freestater — passage of i26 will affect all 512 laws in the MS code with the word “person” in them. It could outlaw birth control (yeson26.net states that as one of its goals–look it up–http://www.yeson26.net/frequently-asked-questions.aspx), could be used to criminalize miscarriage (there is already a 15-yr-old MS girl being prosecuted for murder for having a stillborn–they’ve been trying to convict her for 5 years, but have put off her case till Dec., since passage of Personhood will make it way easier), and could make IVF inaccessible for Mississippians (see http://parentsagainstms26.com/). And of course, there are no exceptions for rape, incest, or ectopic pregnancies. Please find out more about the extreme consequences passage of Initiative 26 would have on Mississippi families before voting.
As soon as the unintended consequences come to light and the bill is challenged in court, who knows how much the state will spend fighting it?? All the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, I reckon. Then there’s additional medical costs for low-income families after they have a bunch of extra kids, which would be borne by us, the taxpayers, again! This is just what we need, Big Government sucking up more and more of our tax dollars for ridiculous proposals when we have people working their butts off just trying to make ends meet. Forget the abortion debate – we just plain can’t afford this!!
You’re right, too expensive. Just like we shouldn’t have tried to reverse Dred Scott or Plessy. Both too expensive.
The people who this will cost the most? Abortion mills. Its a multi-million dollar industry that obviously has the most to lose and that is why you all are so scared!
@Republican Dawg, I am currently pregnant. If my birth is completely complication-free and if I only have to spend 2 days in hospital, I’m looking at a bill of over $3500. Afterwards, there will be numerous expenses for childcare, diapers, well-child visits, vaccinations, ER visits if the child is sick, clothes, gas money to visit the grandparents, and so on–and that’s just the first year. There are at least eighteen more to go!
By contrast, a medical abortion procedure usually carries a one-time cost of between $300 and $700 bucks. This price barely covers the cost of the procedure. Not to mention the probability that an abortion provider will be harassed daily, or the possibility that he or she will be assassinated. Because of this, abortion providers have extra insurance costs.
Abortion providers are not making money. In fact, abortions usually *cost* providers money. You couldn’t physically do enough abortions in a day to build the “industry” people seem to think exists.
I have no stake in abortion providers. I’m not “scared” that they might miss out on a couple hundred bucks. I’m scared because the minute that initiative passes, my life is secondary to that of the child I carry. My right to privacy, my right to make my own medical decisions, my right to be rescued from death or illness if something (god forbid) happens to me or the baby, all negated because someone decided to spread lies to further their own political ambitions. (It’s funny to me that you chose two examples of expansions of civil and human rights to advocate for the limiting of my own rights.)
I love and want my baby, but I’ll be voting NO on this…I want him to know that mommies are people too.
Comments are still on going on that “It’s not easy being left” group. Also someone posted a comment criticizing Hood on his Facebook wall a while back and I guess they’re gonna leave it up. Pretty funny stuff.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/msleftleaners/?view=permalink&id=265554100134755
http://www.facebook.com/AGJimHood
If the “Personhood Amendment” passes – and survives the expensive constitutional court challenges that will follow – we will have the following increases every year :
* An additional 54 girls under 15 will give birth.
* An additional 685 teenage girls will give birth.
* An additional 1163 young, college age women will give birth.
* 743 more Mississippi babies will live in poverty.
* 646 additional people will receive SNAP benefits (aka Food Stamps).
* 210 more Mississippians, on average, will be unemployed.
* 226 more per year will be incarcerated in our prisons.
* 3 of those babies will eventually be homeless, 2 with no shelter at all.
* 585 more people per year will be uncertain as to whether they will eat their next meal or not – 206 will go hungry.
It would lead, statistically speaking, to 739 additional teen births per year, which would cost our taxpayers, roughly, an additional $16 Million dollars per year.
Bobby,
Not challenging your stats, but where did you get them? I would like to look them up and share them.
Bobby,
Stop and think about what you are saying. I suppose you would have supported Hitler’s Eugenics too? Just cull out those drags on society. Kill them since they aren’t worth anything. Yeah, let’s bring back the good old days of Nazi Germany where some people weren’t worth keeping around. Fire up the incinerators and let’s get rid of those folks. Better yet, let’s just kill them while they are still in their mother’s womb.
It is a sad and scary argument that you are making.
This amendment is being marketed as an anti-abortion measure. It is not. It will not make abortion illegal in Mississippi. The United States Constitution and Supreme Court decisions are controlling on the issue of abortion. What it will do is open Mississippi up to lawsuits that the taxpayers will spend millions of dollars defending. This is money that would be better spent preventing pregnancy in the first place, educating children, or improving Mississippi in other ways. Additionally, if a fertilized egg is classified as a human being in Mississippi, the the pregnant women will be eligible for foodstamps, welfare, child support, tax deductions, etc. from the moment of conception. We cannot very well tell women that their fertilized eggs are human beings and then tell them that it is not a human being for tax purposes or for the purpose of child support.
This amendment could make most forms of birth control illegal and/or inaccessible. Most forms of birth control interfere with the implantation of a fertilized egg. More women will conceive unwanted pregnancies. What happens to the numbers of abortions then? If you oppose abortion, prevention of pregnancy is the surest way to prevent abortion.
If you oppose abortion, this amendment is not the way to address it.
From the Jackson Free Press interview of Jim Hood:
Q: You drew criticism for posting a statement on Facebook in support of the Personhood Amendment. Can you explain what happened?
A: I don’t operate that account. I didn’t intend for us to be putting up statements. It’s not like a badge of courage. Whoever is promoting that wanted to know our position, and our campaign manager was going to send a letter, and somehow it got posted on Facebook. It’s not that I am ashamed of it, but it’s just not an issue in this race. Who believes what about abortion isn’t an issue for the attorney general because you have to defend whatever is out there.