Posted on 05/13/2008 9:34:55 PM PDT by Lesforlife
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH 131,000 Coloradans endorse 'personhood' plan Ballot initiative would extend constitution's protections to pre-born Posted: May 13, 2008 9:41 pm Eastern
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Kristi Burton, spokeswoman for Colorado for Equal Rights, and her mother announcing more than 131,000 Coloradans want a personhood amendment on the 2008 election ballot
More than 131,000 Coloradans have endorsed a plan to put an initiative on the fall 2008 election ballot that would allow voters to extend the U.S. Constitution's protections to those who haven't been born yet, something supporters say the U.S. founders intended all along.
In a campaign that opponents fret is a direct challenge to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in which the Supreme Court discovered the right of a mother-to-be to abort her unborn child, the Colorado personhood amendment is a simple proposal.
"This proposed constitutional amendment will define a person in Colorado as a human being from the moment of fertilization, the moment when life begins," according to a statement at the sponsoring group, Colorado for Equal Rights.
At a news conference today, Colorado for Equal Rights spokeswoman Kristi Burton was asked by a reporter about the "Christian" perspective of the campaign.
Not so fast, she said, because this campaign is based on "biology 101."
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Could you please point me to the place in the Bill of Rights that grants Constitutional Protections to “Citizens” and not “People?”
The fact is that illegal aliens have Constitutional Protections as People in the United States.
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's obvious to those who don't see a penumbra around this document that any reference to people, singularly or plurally, is specifically to the people of the United States.
See Plyler v. Doe:
a) The illegal aliens who are plaintiffs in these cases challenging the statute may claim the benefit of the Equal Protection Clause, which provides that no State shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Whatever his status under the immigration laws, an alien is a “person” in any ordinary sense of that term.
Illegal Aliens are people and thus are protected by the Constitution.
I am old enough to remember science classes in which we were taught “life begins at conception”.
God bless ALL who are working to re-establish this scientific FACT as the basis for constitutional protection for unborn human beings!
What does illegal aliens have to do with abortion? Why hijack this topic? Are we to accept the murder of millions because you hate aliens?
The role of person has allways been flexible, women, blacks, non-landowners, have been considered non-persons, less than 100% people for many years.
It might not pass SCOTUS this year, but it is putting the issues back into the hands of the voters. And it is reshaping the debate.
Ya think???
No.
76,000
Just like previous court rulings stated that blacks/slaves were not fully human.
I keep telling the pro-aborts that they will be looked upon, in a not too future date, in the same way that we/they look upon the pro-slavery people.
The abortion battle is THE quintessential good vs evil, God vs Satan battle here on earth.
Nothing epitomizes more the core values of the left. The most innocent human, a being in God’s own image, being sacrificed to alleviate a “consequence” for (often) frivolous sexual behavior choices.
Sounds like the makings of a great tv commercial!
Looks like our state, Colorado, the first state to legalize abortion will get the chance to repent! Thanks in large part to a young home-schooled Christian woman who was taught "With God all things are possible".
Way to go Kristi Burton!
AMEN!!
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