Pro-Life Advocates Launch Abortion-Personhood Campaigns in Colorado, Montana

Life News ^ | 6/30/09 | Steven Ertelt

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Denver, CO (LifeNews.com) -- Although they were not successful in getting their states to sign off on state constitution amendments for personhood for unborn children, pro-life advocates in Colorado and Montana are giving the effort another try.

A large majority of Colorado voters rejected one amendment while Montana voters never had a chance to vote on the proposal there.

Backers of the amendments will host kickoffs in both states on measures they say will recognize the rights of all citizens, including children who haven't been born.

In Montana, pro-life state Rep. Wendy Warburton is working with the Montana Pro Life Coalition and Personhood USA to organize a petition gathering campaign. The groups plan a rally on the steps of Montana's state capitol on Wednesday morning.

"This effort is about loving mothers, loving babies, and building a society where every single one of us is valued, no matter how young," she said.

Dr. Annie Bukacek, the head of the coalition, added, "Based on their intrinsic value and dignity, every human being, from the moment life begins, deserves equal protection under the law. This is the principle of personhood. It's high time the people of Montana had an opportunity to vote on this fundamental human rights issue."

On Thursday, in Colorado, Colorado Right to Life and Personhood USA will introduce a similar amendment for Colorado's constitution. They plan a press conference on the steps of the state capitol.

Keith Mason of Personhood USA talked about the effort, which pro-life advocates are duplicating in Oregon, Mississippi and several other states this year or next.

"This question should have been settled in 1865. There should be no 'three-fifths of a person' - not in Montana, not in Colorado, not anywhere. All humans are people," he told LifeNews.com.

Last election, Colorado voters were decidedly opposed to Amendment 48, the ballot proposal that would have amended the state constitution to define the beginning of human life as occurring at conception.

The measure could have affected the status of legal abortions in Colorado and could also have played a role in affecting bioethics laws related to human cloning and stem cell research.

In the end, Colorado voters defeated Amendment 48 by nearly a 3-1 margin.

Last June, the groups sponsoring the Montana personhood amendment announced that they did not have enough signatures to get it on the November ballot.

In order for CI-100 to make it on the November 2008 ballot, it needed 44,000 signatures from registered Montana voters. Friday, June 20 was the deadline for the backers of the initiative to present enough signatures to the Secretary of State.

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"This question should have been settled in 1865. There should be no 'three-fifths of a person' - not in Montana, not in Colorado, not anywhere. All humans are people," he told LifeNews.com.

Amen!

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[floridavoter2]

73% of Colorado voters rejected it last time. I’m guessing CO is a waste of time and money.

[wagglebee]

73% of Colorado voters rejected it last time. I’m guessing CO is a waste of time and money.

Hopefully Lesforlife can give us some further insight.

[BRITinUSA]

The US Constitution does not define what a person is.

Abortion affects unborn persons. Persons who have been born are granted the Right to Life by default. It is only necessary to extend the Right to Life to the unborn.

Life begins at the moment of conception. All unborn persons have a fundamental Right to Life that cannot be denied, unless their existence is proven to threaten the physical life of the mother.

[wagglebee]

The US Constitution does not define what a person is.

Abortion affects unborn persons. Persons who have been born are granted the Right to Life by default. It is only necessary to extend the Right to Life to the unborn.

This is not necessarily true.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

It is beyond question that life is one of the "Blessings of Liberty" because it is the first unalienable right listed in the Declaration of Independence. The term "posterity" means those generations not yet born (and this term is capitalized which indicates the Founding Fathers considered it important), so it is reasonable to conclude that the Constitution DOES extend rights to those not yet born.

[Lesforlife]

Tell that to William Wilberforce, Susan B. Anthony or Dr. Martin Luther King!

Colorado garnered over a half million voters who get it
that it is always wrong to kill a baby!

As a co-sponsor of Personhood 2010 in Colorado - with my Terri warrior friend, Gualberto Garcia Jones, we are marching forth to establish personhood for all human beings, from the moment of their biologic beginning.

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Let’s not forget Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin and all of the other Founding Fathers. In 1776 the American people were overwhelmingly opposed to independence.

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Prayer for the Helpless Unborn

Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil,

those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life.

Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today

 who are not thinking of motherhood.

Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image

 - as well as theirs - made for eternal life.

Dispel their fear and selfishness and give them true womanly hearts

to love their babies and give them birth

and all the needed care that a mother can give.

We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord,

Who lives and reigns with You and Holy Spirit,

One God, forever and ever. Amen.

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[BykrBayb]

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

[Dumb_Ox]

Though I voted for Amendment 48, I worry that it is a futile and possibly counterproductive campaign to revisit it so soon.

Even if it passes, what if an Obama court uses a federal court decision about these laws to make the Roe v. Wade precedenteven worse?

Making this a political issue puts people on their guard and makes our opponents fight back rather than fall into complacency. Aren't there better ways of educating and persuading the public?

[Lesforlife]

11 “Deliver those who are drawn toward death,
And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.”

Proverbs 24:11

My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.”

Martin Luther King’s letter from a Birmingham Jail -4/16-1963

[Lesforlife]

Even if the baby’s life is said to be a threat to the mother,
the doctor still has 2 patients and a moral obligation to
try and save both!

[Dumb_Ox]

Do those quotes prove anything?

"Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." Where's the wisdom here?

[Lesforlife]

So please explain your “wise “and “harmless” plan to restore
legal protection to the pre-born.

How many million more have to die before taking action makes
sense?

[Dumb_Ox]

You merge "taking action" with "taking political action on the state ballot." I'm all in favor of the former, the latter is questionable.

A second campaign so soon after such a large failure is a waste of resources better spent on educational campaigns and even religious evangelization.

Further, political action is mostly futile at the moment. Do you seriously think this would pass judicial muster?