🩷 Your Daily Dose of Women’s History… On November 8, 2011, Mississippi voters rejected Initiative 26, the so-called “personhood” amendment, by 57.63% to 42.37%. The measure would have amended the state constitution to define a “person” as every human being from the moment of fertilization (or cloning), with sweeping legal effects.  Why this mattered: defining personhood at fertilization risked criminalizing abortion and reaching into contraception and IVF, since some methods work by preventing