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2010-10-21 11:49 AM

Schmidt
Colorado Springs, CO
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Reference: The 'Personhood Amendment' is Anti-Life by Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh, Ph.D. of the Coalition for Secular Government

Coloradoans are going to the polls to not only elect candiates but vote on amendments. One in particular if approved would grant full legal rights to a fertilzed egg or zygote from the moment of conception. The implications of the proposed Amendment 62 to Colorado's constitution is addressed by Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh, Ph.D. I extract the following from the Coalition for Secular Government Website.

"Amendment 62, set to appear on Colorado’s 2010 ballot, seeks to legally establish personhood from the moment of conception, granting a fertilized egg (or zygote) full legal rights in the state’s constitution. Following in the footsteps of 2008’s Amendment 48, Amendment 62 is the spearhead of a national campaign to outlaw abortion and other practices that could harm a zygote, embryo, or fetus.

"If fully implemented, Amendment 62 would profoundly and adversely impact the lives of sexually-active couples, couples seeking children, pregnant women and their partners, doctors, and medical researchers. It would subject them to severe legal restrictions, police controls, and in many cases protracted court battles and criminal punishments.

"Amendment 62 would outlaw abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, terminally deformed fetuses, and danger to the woman’s health. It would prohibit doctors from performing abortions except perhaps in some cases to save the life of the woman, thereby endangering the lives and health of many women. In conjunction with existing statutes.

"Amendment 62 would subject women and their doctors to first-degree murder charges for willfully terminating a pregnancy, with the required punishment of life in prison or the death penalty.

"The impact of Amendment 62 would extend far beyond abortion into the personal corners of every couple’s reproductive life. It would outlaw many forms of birth control, including the pill, IUD, and “morning after” drugs. It would require criminal investigation of any miscarriages deemed suspicious. It would ban potentially life-saving embryonic stem-cell research and common fertility treatments.

"Amendment 62 rests on the absurd premise that a newly fertilized zygote is a full human person with an absolute right to biological life-support from a woman—regardless of her wishes and whatever the cost to her. The biological facts of pregnancy, in conjunction with an objective theory of rights, support a different view, namely that personhood and rights begin at birth. Colorado law should reflect those facts, not the Bible verses so often quoted (and creatively interpreted) by advocates of Amendment 62 and other “personhood” measures."

Thank you Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh. Read their full paper at the Coalition for Secular Government Website.

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