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Mississippi Rejects Abortion Ban, Kentucky Re-Elects Governor

Staff Reporters |
November 8, 2011 | 7:33 p.m. PST

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear (Photo Creative Commons)
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear (Photo Creative Commons)
Mississippi voters rejected the so-called "personhood" amendment on Tuesday night that would have effectively banned abortions in the state, the Associated Press is reporting.

The initiative would have amended the state Constitution to define life “to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof," according to the New York Times.

Had it passed, the initiative would have been a direct challenge to the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade, and would likely have resulted in legal challenges.

KENTUCKY

Elsewhere in the county, Kentucky's incumbent governor Steve Beshear, a Democrat, won re-election.  The November elections across the country are being looked to as a barometer of how the country may swing in the upcoming 2012 presidential race.

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