     And I'm Guy Raz. Voters were expected to make Mississippi
the first state to confer protected legal status to fertilized
human eggs. Instead, yesterday they made it the second state to
reject a so-called personhood amendment to its constitution.
NPR's Julie Rovner reports that one possible reason is that the
effort has divided the anti-abortion community.  JULIE ROVNER,
BYLINE: In the end, it shouldn't have been all that surprising
that the amendment to declare every human being a person at,
quote, "the moment of fertilization," might have some trouble at
the polls, even in a strongly anti-abortion state like
Mississippi. On the one hand, it had the support of the state's
Republican lieutenant governor, now Governor-elect Phil Bryant.
Here's part of an ad he made.   GOVERNOR-ELECT PHIL BRYANT: Now
we're saying, that child, once conceived, will have an
opportunity to have the same rights as you and I.  ROVNER: But
on the other hand, the even more popular outgoing Republican
governor, Haley Barbour, expres