Colorado: 2010 ballot initiative proposes to classify 'eggs as people'

[ccharles000]

A version of the anti-abortion initiative soundly defeated by Colorado voters in 2008 is making its way to the 2010 ballot, this time reworked as an “egg-as-a-person” initiative.

This new version would move the legal definition of a person further back into the reproductive cycle, granting cells the full spectrum of citizen rights. Opposition groups, including Colorado genetic and fertilization researchers, say the law would have spiraling consequences, that it would put women at risk and freeze current work in medicine and reproduction.

Colorado Right to Life and Personhood USA, the groups behind proposed Initiative 25, are undeterred by the fact that Coloradans voted against the test-run amendment last year by a margin of three to one. The new amendment is even farther reaching, moving the initial marker for the beginning of life from “fertilization” to “the beginning of the biological development of a human being.”

Personhood Colorado Director and the initiative proponent Gualberto Garcia Jones told The Colorado Independent that the change was made “to be more comprehensive in our definition of a person” and was not done to make it more appealing to voters.

“It’s intended to account for human beings who may be created through asexual reproduction in laboratories and used as raw material for research, organs, or stem cells. Fertilization would not have properly applied to asexually reproduced humans, but even asexually reproduced human beings have a definite biological beginning,” Jones explained.

“Over half-a-million Coloradans voted for the personhood initiative in 2008,” Jones said in a press conference announcing the campaign. “Their votes acknowledging the God-given right to life of the pre-born revolutionizes the pro-life movement and encourage us toward victory. ”

http://coloradoindependent.com/40520/personhood-initiative-lining-up-friends-and-foes

[Orrex]

1. I cheer every time those nutty eggvocates bring this up.

Because now pregnant women will finally be able to drive in the carpool lane, and because pregnant women can't be jailed without also improperly imprisoning an egg-person.

Three cheers for idiotic, over-reaching, hard-boiled Righties!

[Roland99]

19. Thankfully it's not about sperm

We'd have *millions* of "murderers" across the land! ;-)

[AndyA]

2. Are you sure that's Colorado and not Oklahoma?

Oh, wait...we probably already have that one in Oklahoma. What the hell has taken Colorado so long?

Republican/Conservative Value: Make sure they're born, and then to hell with them...they don't need loving/caring parents, an education, health care, or anything else. If they survive, what the hell we'll send them off to war to die.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Idiots. I feel for the women who menstruate. They can be brought up on charges of murder at any time

[tanyev]

4. Then there's a lot of people freezing to death inside fertility clinics.

[tmyers09]

5. I wonder if they'll be allowed to marry?

[ddeclue]

6. Eggs are people?

:shrug:
:rofl:

[nyrnyr1994]

11. This was the first thing I thought of...

I forgot about U.S. Acres:

[Ian David]

7. Most women would run out of names to put on the birth certificates every time they use a tampon. n/t

[rucky]

8. I could go for a Person McMuffin right about now.

[MazeRat7]

9. My chickens aren't going to like that n/t

[Peacetrain]

10. You know ccharles.. with cloning breakthroughs.. it is only a matter of time before cutting hair

will be equated with an existing life.. because of the potential for life..

[Generic Other]

12. Will menstruation be murder then?

Bloody idiots!

[mrs_p]

13. we voted down their last initiative

hopefully, coloradoans will do it again...

[Writer]

14. LOLOLOL!

Every speerrrrm is saaaaaacred!

[foxfeet]

15. And every gleam in my eye is a human being.

[Writer]

17. The worst would be banning birth control...

that means that we would create life every time we THINK of having sex.

[ellie]

16. I thought this was a joke.

[Rosco T.]

18. Then they better include "tax deduction" on there....

.. watch the fun when someone claims a dozen deductions on their tax returns, one a month for 12 months?