Mississippi Personhood Bill Could Criminalize Doctors Who Perform An Abortion To Save A Woman’s Life

Think Progress, November 4, 2011 by Tanya Somanader Physicians and medical associations are now speaking out against Mississippi’s personhood amendment, warning that it is “a dangerous intrusionof criminal law into the provision of medical care.” Specifically, by criminalizing abortion, the measure could “criminalize routine medical practice that intentionally or not terminates a pregnancy” because, according […]