Thursday, March 29, 2012

Only 2 members of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee come from districts that supported the Personhood Amendment

Now that the bill to effectively end abortion in Mississippi is sitting in the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, perhaps a look at how the constituents of the members of that committee voted on the Personhood Amendment:



Dean Kirby (R - Pearl)
, Chairman - 56.1% AGAINST
Hob Bryan (D - Amory), Vice-Chairman - 51.8% AGAINST
David Blount (D - Jackson) - 70.4% AGAINST
Terry C. Burton (R - Newton) - 50.3% AGAINST
Nancy Adams Collins (R - Tupelo) - 54.9% FOR
Merle Flowers (R - Southaven) - 52.1% AGAINST
Hillman Terome Frazier (D - Jackson) - 79.7% AGAINST
Alice Harden (D - Jackson) - 82.4% AGAINST
Josh Harkins (R - Flowood) - 58.6% AGAINST
W. Briggs Hopson III (R - Vicksburg) - 66.2% AGAINST
Gary Jackson (R - French Camp) - 54.8% AGAINST
Kenneth Wayne Jones (D - Canton) - 71.3% AGAINST
Rita Potts Parks (R - Corinth) - 61% FOR
Willie Simmons (D - Cleveland) - 72% AGAINST
Tony Smith (R - Picayune) - 59.2% AGAINST
Melanie Sojourner (R - Natchez) - 58.6% AGAINST
Gray Tollison (R - Oxford) - 63.8% AGAINST
Bennie L. Turner (D - West Point) - 64.4% AGAINST
Brice Wiggins (R - Pascagoula) - 62.9% AGAINST

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