Statewide News

New 'personhood' initiative proposed in Miss.

Abortion opponents are pushing for another Mississippi ballot initiative that would define life as beginning at conception, coming less than two years after 58 percent of voters in the conservative state rejected a nearly identical proposal.

Sponsors who filed paperwork for a new initiative said they believe people were misled about the measure that was defeated in November 2011.

Opponents call the move a waste of time.
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