COLORADO PERSONHOOD PETITION DRIVE LAUNCHED IN DENVER

Washington, DC (25 August 2009) – The state that pushed the human personhood movement into the national spotlight with last year’s Amendment 48 campaign is gearing up for its largest petition drive to date.

The 2010 Personhood Amendment campaign launched its drive at a press conference Aug. 25 in Denver. The drive will now begin gathering the 76,047 signatures required to place the amendment on the November 2010 ballot.

“As Colorado personhood activists blaze a trail for true equality under the law for all human beings, we stand alongside them in their efforts to gain legal recognition of the inalienable rights of every single American – born and preborn,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League.

American Life League is working to have a Federal Human Personhood Amendment introduced in the United States Congress.

In 2008, Colorado paved the way for over a dozen other states to pursue personhood initiatives. Colorado’s proposed 2010 Personhood Amendment reads as follows:

"An amendment to the Colorado Constitution applying the term 'person' as used in those provisions of the Colorado Constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice, and due process of law, to every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."

American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to natural death. For more information or press inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.

Our first spokesperson today, Sherri Williams, took on the biggest
Planned Parenthood lie - that children of criminal rapists deserve
the death penalty.

Click on her link below for the full story!

Denver, CO — August 25, 2009: Today’s press conference will launch the 2010 Personhood Amendment petition drive with a request to re-activate a thousand volunteer petitioners from 2008!

The Colorado Secretary Of State title board has given the unanimous go ahead for the new Personhood effort to begin gathering the 76,047 signatures required to place the amendment on the November 2010 ballot.

At the press conference at a post office, the campaign will build upon last year’s effort, reactivating by the 1,000 circulators that gathered the 131,000 signatures in 2008 by mailing them 2010 petitions.

The petition drive will launch by addressing head-on the hard cases of rape and incestwith comments from our campaign spokesperson, Sherri Williams, herself a victim of rape.

What: Press Conference to activate over 1,000 volunteers
When: Tuesday August 25 10:30-11:00
Where: US Post Office 225 S Broadway Denver, Colorado

“We are pleased that once again the Colorado Secretary Of State has seen through objections of Planned Parenthood and has enabled the personhood campaign to move forward,” said initiative co-sponsor Gualberto Garcia Jones J.D. with Personhood Colorado.

“As we continue to press forward, we are seeing incremental advances for the personhood rights of the preborn,” said Leslie Hanks, initiative co-sponsor with Colorado RTL.

http://americanrighttolife.org/news/so-called-hard-cases

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