My name is Atlee Breland. I’m a lifelong Mississippian, a wife, a mother, and a Christian. That’s me at the left with my daughters, who are five years old, and I also have a three-year-old son. My husband and I live in the Jackson area, and I’m a part-time freelance programmer.
When my husband and I decided to have children, we were dismayed to find ourselves dealing with infertility. After prayer and consideration, we decided to proceed with infertility treatment. With the help of our wonderful doctors, we were fortunate enough to become pregnant. Our twin daughters were born in September 2006, and our son came two years later. We’re incredibly blessed to have them, and we’re so grateful to both God and medicine.
You can read our story in our Personal Stories, or in the article I wrote for Religion Dispatches.
I’ve never considered myself a pro-choice activist. I’m not a member of NOW or Planned Parenthood or the ACLU, and this site isn’t being sponsored by any other organization. I’ve got no conflicts of interest to disclose.
I’m just an ordinary mother, who wants to make sure that every couple facing infertility has the same options that I did. That’s why I started Parents Against MS 26.
Parents Against Personhood is a state- and federally-registered political action committee.
Dear Ms. Breland:
This is an excellent website. I am running for Justice Court Judge, and this is the only issue anyone is asking me about. I think that Prop 26 is an unconscionable cynical ploy to manipulate Mississippi into paying the costs of the litigation that will take years on the road to the US Supreme Court. Of course, if the state loses the case (which even Liberty Counsel thinks is highly likely) the state would end up footing the costs of the challenge against the law, per 42 USC 1988, which allows prevailing civil rights litigants to recover their attorney’s fees and costs from the losing parties. So, perversely, MS would end up funding ACLU and Planned Parenthood, costing the state millions of dollars in the meantime.
Thank you, Alex.
I think this is a very important issue which people SHOULD be asking their judicial candidates about, because should the initiative pass, you will have a great deal of responsibility for deciding these same questions.