Mississippi voters defeat life-at-fertilization ballot proposition

Thursday, November 10, 2011

JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would've declared life begins at fertilization, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a legal challenge to abortion rights nationwide.

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