On AlterNet: personhood

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "personhood"

How Mississippi's Vote Today Could Put Pregnant Women Under State Control

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. November 7, 2011.

A personhood amendment is a backdoor to stripping away women’s rights -- their very right to be considered autonomous human beings.

Legal Rights for Fertilized Eggs? How a Terrifying Law Could Lead to Jail-time for Miscarriages, Birth Control Bans, and the End of Legal Abortion

Irin Carmon, Salon. October 26, 2011.

Mississippi could well be the first state to pass a "personhood law," once considered too extreme for mainstream anti-choicers.

Woman Arrested for Thinking About Abortion? How Insane 'Personhood' Laws Are a Direct Assault on Pregnant Women

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. March 15, 2011.

Women are being assaulted by attempts to establish fetal rights.

Anti-Choice Zealots Make Bank Promoting the "Personhood" of Zygotes

Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check. August 18, 2009.

The 'egg-as-person' crusade is driving big money to anti-choice groups.

Child Health Care Tangled in Anti-abortion Politics

Carole Joffe, AlterNet. August 6, 2007.

Bush's deplorable response to expanding child health care represents more than a fierce opposition to government-provided services.

Every Sperm Is Sacred! Dem. Lawmaker Sneaks \'Life Begins at Ejaculation\' Amendment into Vile \'Personhood\' Bill

Marie Diamond, December 31, 1969.

Maddow on Mississippi\'s Drive to Call an Embryo a Person and Its Roots in the \"Conceived in Rape\" Tour

Sarah Seltzer, December 31, 1969.