Colorado One Step Closer to Outlawing Abortion
Colorado may be the first State to stand up and say in one collective voice, all human life is equal. A proposed amendment to the State’s Constitution recently was given tentative approval by a State board, putting it on a path to be voted on in 2008. The Amendment does not refer to abortion directly, however it attempts to take advantage of a loophole left in the Roe v. Wade decision which effectively legalized abortion nationwide. The Amendment reads:
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. Article II of the constitution of the state of Colorado is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read: Section 31. Person defined. AS USED IN SECTIONS 3, 6, AND 25 OF ARTICLE II OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION, THE TERMS “PERSON” OR “PERSONS” SHALL INCLUDE ANY HUMAN BEING FROM THE MOMENT OF FERTILIZATION.
By defining “personhood” as including and human being from the moment of fertilization, the State will be giving unborn children constitutional rights which the court did not recognize in 1973. In fact Justice Harry Blackmun, who was the author of the 1973 opinion stated: “[If the] suggestion of personhood [for the unborn] is established, the [abortion rights] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
Based on this statement, Colorado residents hope to now outlaw abortion in their State by establishing personhood. If the amendment were to receive voter approval in 2008, it will certainly be met by lawsuits from Planned Parenthood or other such organizations, and in all likelihood will eventually be decided on by the Supreme Court.
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Good for them. God Bless them.
Go Colorado go! Don’t let the majority fraction of lawyers, the lawyers/’judges’, those who are proabortion and who are such an influential part of the culture of death, stand in your way. Run over them.
God Bless you.
It amazes me how this article is framed. “All human life is equal”? Equal to what?
The law cannot legally or ethically force women to carry pregnancies to term, nor can it give two entities occupying one body equal rights. It can’t be done. One’s rights will inevitably trump the other’s. A pregnancy is not a person.
I mean, really, this isn’t that hard to figure out.
Kelly,
That is exactly what the issue is here, when is a fetus a human being. Your statement of “a pregnancy is not a person” is very shortsighted. Exactly at what point would you agree that a fetus is a person and has rights? When it is born? 5 days later? How about we make it after it turns 18?
P.S. When I said “All Human Life is Equal”, I meant equal to each other, no life is more valuable than another.
Aug 12th, 2007 at 10:44 am
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