Coloradoans likely to vote on ‘fetal personhood’ for a third time in November

Source: Raw Story

Coloradoans likely to vote on ‘fetal personhood’ for a third time in November
By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 18:04 EDT



Personhood Colorado has announced it collected 112,121 signatures for a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state’s constitution. If 86,105 of those signatures are valid, the proposed amendment will be placed on the Colorado ballot for the third time in four years.

“Once again, we are amazed at the tenacity of our nearly fifteen hundred volunteers,” said Rosalinda Lozano of Rachel’s Vineyard, one of the sponsors of the proposed amendment. “We had seven fewer weeks to petition due to another failed lawsuit from Planned Parenthood, yet we are turning in over thirty thousand signatures more than in 2010.”

The ballot measure would define a human being as “a member of the species homo sapiens at any stage of development.” The proposed amendment is meant to set up a legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, by completely prohibiting a woman from terminating her pregnancy, even in cases of incest or rape.

A similar constitutional amendment was defeated by Colorado voters in 2008 and again 2010. Critics of the previous amendments claimed that it would do more than just outlaw abortion. They said it would also affect common birth control methods, the treatment of ectopic pregnancy, in vitro fertilization treatment, and stem cell research.


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