Mississippi bills reflect priorities of GOP majority
JACKSON -- Mississippi lawmakers are sponsoring bills to tighten restrictions on abortion, crack down on immigration, expand the use of charter schools and limit the power of the attorney general.
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Among the anti-abortion proposals:
n House Bill 857, sponsored by Republican Rep. Alex Monsour of Vicksburg, is called the “pain-capable unborn child protection act.” It would ban abortion starting at 20 weeks’ gestation unless the pregnant woman is in danger of dying or faces “serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment.” The standard gestation for a full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks.
n House Concurrent Resolution 61, by Republican Reps. Andy Gipson of Braxton, William Tracy Arnold of Booneville and Chris Brown of Aberdeen and Democratic Rep. Tom Miles of Forest, is a proposed constitutional amendment that would define “person” as “all human beings from conception to natural death.” It is similar to a life-at-fertilization constitutional amendment rejected by 58 percent of voters last November, although it appears to address some concerns raised by opponents last year. The resolution says the new proposal could not be construed to prohibit in-vitro fertilization, life-saving medical procedures or “contraceptives or other methods of birth control that do not kill a person.”
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