November 8, 2011 Election Results for Pro-Life Measure in Mississippi

Mississippi voters rejected an amendment to the state constitution that defined life as beginning at the moment of conception.

The measure would have made it impossible to get an abortion in the state and hampered the ability to get the morning-after pill or birth control pills that destroy fertilized eggs.

Disposing of unused fertilized eggs could also have become illegal, making in vitro fertilization treatments more difficult. The measure could have led to a nationwide debate about women’s rights and abortion while setting up a possible challenge to the landmark Roe v. Wade case, which makes abortion legal.

Also, CNN projects that Mississippi voters will approve a measure to amend the state constitution to require a person to submit government-issued photo ID in order to vote.

WHAT GOD’S WORD, THE HOLY BIBLE, SAYS ABOUT SHEDDING THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT UNBORN BABIES…

[Deuteronomy 19:9-10] If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three: [10] That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

[2 Kings 24:4] And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

[Psalms 94:21] They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

[Psalms 106:38] And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

[Proverbs 6:16] These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:[Proverbs 6:17] A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

[Jeremiah 7:6] If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

[Jeremiah 22:3] Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

[Joel 3:19] Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

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