From Pro-Life Wisconsin:
The two Republican gubernatorial candidates in Mississippi have pledged their strong support for a personhood constitutional amendment that will be on the ballot this November. Amendment 26, the Mississippi Personhood Amendment, defines the words “person” and “persons,” as used in the state constitution, to “include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.” Click on the “Yes on 26” website to learn more about the Mississippi personhood campaign.Current Lt. Governor and Republican candidate for Governor Phil Bryant has supported the personhood amendment drive from its inception, which helped tremendously in the signature gathering stage of this grassroots effort. In February 2010, Personhood Mississippi submitted over 130,000 signatures — 40,000 more than required for ballot access.At a press conference in June accepting his endorsement by Mississippi Right to Life, Bryant stated, “I also want to encourage everyone to support the Personhood Amendment that will be on the ballot in November. If successful on the ballot, the Personhood Amendment will be a turning point for protecting the unborn in Mississippi.”Gulfport businessman Dave Dennis, Bryant’s Republican primary opponent, also supports the Amendment 26 campaign. “I believe as our Founding Fathers believed that we are endowed by our Creator ‘with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,’” stated Dennis. “I am fully pro-life and oppose abortion. I favor the Personhood Initiative to put a strong pro-life issue on the ballot in November.”A Yes on 26 campaign kickoff event will be held this week featuring former presidential candidate and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee as keynote speaker and special guest Deanna Favre.