While there doesn't seem to have been a lot of mainstream media coverage of Initiative 26 in Mississippi, it could potentially rewrite the rules of engagement for sexual activity in this country. David Atkins over at Digby's was discussing the futility of trying to debate the backers of this bill on rational grounds. So let's look at this irrationally.
IF a person is what you have the moment a sperm fertilizes an egg, well there are some consequences that follow from this that should give pause to every man in Mississippi. That's right - every male old enough to produce sperm. Each and every one of them is on the verge of becoming an abortionist. (More below the orange squiggle of power.)
It's so simple, even a product of the Mississippi educational system should be able to understand it. If a person is what you have the moment a sperm fertilizes an egg, then every time a man masturbates, he's committing abortion. Every act of self pleasure that does not end with the Great Race to be the One denies thousands and thousands of potential persons the right to life. It's murder on a scale beyond belief.
It doesn't end there. Even if a man is in a state of Holy Matrimony with a woman (and don't even think of any other kind of relationship you liberal perverts), every act of a sexual nature that doesn't involve man on top get it over with quick sex (to paraphrase the late George Carlin) is just another deliberate choice to Choose Death. Oral sex, mutual gratification, etc. etc. - if those sperm don't end up making their destined hook-up, it's against the Laws of God. The Bible tells us so! This includes deliberately having sex when a woman is not in her fertile period - the Rhythm Method.
And, of course, any man who has an episode of nocturnal emission is guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Women are let off the hook on this one, since they can't normally control when or how they're going to ovulate. (They're going to Hell if they resort to artificial measures to control it, though.) As long as they are married to just one man, who has sole sexual access to them, and as long as they have 'unprotected' sex only and every time she goes through her fertile period, they should be well within the bounds of law in Mississippi if this initiative goes through. Sex of any kind outside those bounds though is a sin against God and will be breaking the law.
This shouldn't be all that hard to understand - the brilliant theologians of Monty Python spelled it out in a musical number that should be mandatory Sex-Ed in Ole Miss if the initiative passes.