looked like this. i was just a normal mississippi girl going to college. and then i was abducted and raped. it changed everything. initiative 26 doesn t make any exceptions for rape or incest. it goes too far. it would be so bad for women and families. i don t trust the government. i trust mississippi families and women to make these important decisions. it s perfectly acceptable to be pro life and against initiative 26. that message worked in mississippi. personhood lost in mississippi by double digits last fall. in part because it turns out people do not like the idea of the government forcing rape victims to bear the child of their rapist. but you know what might make that decision seem more palatable? if pregnant rape victims were a myth, if they didn t exist. if it s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try
for the personhood measure, not against it. the mississippi campaign prided itself on its mission to force rape victims and incest victims who became pregnant as a result of the crimes to bring the pregnancies to term against their will. as a rape victim or an incest victim. the personhood campaign tried to turn the idea of forcing women in that circumstance to bear the child of their rapist. they tried to turn that into an asset for their campaign. but even in a place like mississippi, even when the electorate is very conservative and very antiabortion, frankly, that idea still sounds crazy and/or repulsive, which is why the campaign against the personhood thing in mississippi looked like this. i was just a normal mississippi girl going to
kristin has emerged as a leading advocate against this radical amendment in home state of mst pississippmississippi. there was a plaintiff in the suit that tried to keep the personhood amendment off the ballot in the state. that lawsuit was not successful. now that the amendment is on the ballot, kristin has become a leading voice against it, not just because he s good at conveying the message against this thing, but she is, but it s in part because her personal story is so compelling. she s willing to tell it as part of making that case. i was just a normal mississippi girl, going to college and then i was abducted and raped. it changed everything. initiative 26 doesn t make any exceptions for rape or incest. it goes too far. it would be so bad for women and families. i don t trust the government. i trust mississippi families and women to make these important decisions. it s perfectly acceptable to be pro life and against initiative 26. as you an see, in sort of
the activist he featured iphis dvd, the one who changed rick perry and on his television show, she headlined a tour, and the tour was called the conceived in rape tour. that was part of the campaign for the personhood measure, not against it. the mississippi campaign prided itself on its mission to force rape victims and incest victims who became pregnant as a result of the crimes to bring the pregnancies to term against their will. as a rape victim or an incest victim. the personhood campaign tried to turn the idea of forcing women in that circumstance to bear the child of their rapist. they tried to turn that into an asset for their campaign. but even in a place like mississippi, even when the electorate is very conservative and very antiabortion, frankly, that idea still sounds crazy and/or repulsive, which is why the campaign against the personhood thing in mississippi looked like this. i was just a normal