Colorado organizers fail to gather enough signatures to put anti-abortion measure on the ballot
Source: CBS News
April 19, 2024 / 7:08 PM EDT
Colorado organizers who sought to put an anti-abortion initiative on the ballot this November failed to gather enough signatures in time to qualify.
The proposed measure from the Colorado Life Initiative sought to declare "a living human child must not be intentionally dismembered, mutilated, poisoned, scalded, starved, stabbed, given toxic injections known to cause death, left to die of the elements for lack of warmth or nutrition, used for experimentation, or treated in any way inhumanely to cause intentional physical harm leading to intended death or intended to cause disability to otherwise healthy and functioning parts of the body of a child."
For the purposes of the group's initiative, a "living human child" exists "from the moment human life biologically begins at conception," according to its website. The group needed to collect 124,238 signatures by the April 18 deadline. Faye Barnhart, co-sponsor of the measure, told CBS News that the group had collected "tens of thousands of signatures," but fell short.
In a press release, the Colorado Life Initiative blamed abortion opponents they deemed "ProLife In Name Only" even calling them "PLINOs" as well as insufficient publicity and recruitment for its failure to obtain enough valid signatures.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-organizers-signatures-anti-abortion-measure-on-the-ballot/
Good!
hlthe2b
(102,343 posts)especially since there are likely to be several LONG ballot initiatives as there were last time around...
niyad
(113,527 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Now they need to really ACT come November and send Trump to the dust bin of history.
paleotn
(17,946 posts)Grins
(7,227 posts)Jesus i n Topeka. What kine of sentence is that? Isn't that already a crime aside from aboretion?
MuseRider
(34,115 posts)Jesus in Topeka? LOL Sadly there is too much Jesus in Topeka but you can get an abortion there and not have to worry about it.
I ask because I was born and raised there but live a bit outside of the city limits in the boonies and had never heard anything like that before.
JustTooMuch
(14 posts)I cant remember how many times antichoice groups have tried to take away rights in Colorado. Glad to see they failed again.
wolfie001
(2,264 posts)Just guessing, but I'm sure some helped fund this flaming pile of garbage. You know, those Aspen and Colorado Springs elite.
CrispyQ
(36,502 posts)Pregnancy tissue at six weeks.
I loathe these people.
reACTIONary
(5,771 posts)... what they were being asked to sign would immediately know that the promoters were a bunch of wackos. I'm surprised they got the number of signatures they did.
republianmushroom
(13,670 posts)Par·a·site
/ˈperəˌsīt/
noun
1.
an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense:
LeftInTX
(25,520 posts)While both a fetus and a parasite rely on a host for nutrients and support, a fetus is genetically related to the host (the mother) and is a natural part of the reproductive process. A parasite, on the other hand, is a separate species that benefits at the expense of its host.
wolfie001
(2,264 posts)Got it.
republianmushroom
(13,670 posts)Child
/CHīld/
noun
1.
a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority:
"she'd been playing tennis since she was a child"
Par·a·site
/ˈperəˌsīt/
noun
1.
an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense:
Which one fits the definition of fetus ?