Posted on 10/22/2009 1:46:27 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
22 October 2009
CONTACT: Katie Walker
540.659.4942| kwalker@all.org
Washington, DC (22 October 2009) – Nevada became the seventh state to launch a “personhood” initiative yesterday.
The amendment reads simply:
“In the great state of Nevada, the term ‘person’ shall apply to every human being.”
“We are thrilled the people of Nevada are finally taking steps to fulfill the dream of the civil rights movement,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. “They are working for the fundamental right to human personhood, without which, no other rights exist. For the people of Nevada and the six other states pursuing personhood initiatives, this is about human rights and justice.”
As a citizen-led initiative, approximately 97,000 signatures are needed for the proposed amendment to get on the 2010 statewide ballot. Nevada joins Montana, Michigan, Colorado, California, Florida and Missouri.
Personhood Nevada, the group sponsoring the petition drive, is led by Richard Ziser, a human rights activist who recently led the successful campaign to define marriage in the Nevada Constitution as a union between one man and one woman.
“It’s time for the people of this country and the people of Nevada to demand that all human beings, from their biological beginning, be recognized and protected as persons under the law.”
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.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
American Life League: Personhood
http://all.org/personhood/
PersonhoodUSA: Personhood
http://www.personhoodusa.com/
Standard Newswire: Nevada Coalition Introduces Historic Campaign to Affirm All Humans are Persons (22 October 2009)
http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/52834627.html
LifeSiteNews: Nevada Launches Personhood Initiative (22 October 2009)
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09102202.html
Las Vegas Sun: Initiative Petition PDF
http://media.lasvegassun.com/media/pdfs/blogs/documents/2009/10/21/ziserinitiative.pdf
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Katie Walker
Director of Communication
American Life League
1179 Courthouse Road
Stafford, Virginia 22554
540.659.4942
kwalker@all.org
http://www.all.org/
Ping for Personhood!
This is a joke, right?
“The amendment reads simply:
“In the great state of Nevada, the term ‘person’ shall apply to every human being.””
I know that Judie Brown has issues with the use of the words “conception” or “fertilization” as signaling the beginning of human life because some people could argue that “conception” implies implantation in the womb and that “fertilization” would somehow exclude test-tube babies. But having the amendment not state when personhood begins creates an even bigger risk of misinterpretation.
How’s this for the text of a personhood amendment?
“The term “person” as used in this Constitution shall apply to every member of the species Homo Sapiens commencing on the moment in which the spermatozoid fertilizes the ovum and ending on the moment of natural death.”
I believe that this hypothetical amendment would make it impossible for judges to interpret it to mean anything other than what it says.
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Why would this be a joke? Do you believe that unborn children are just "clumps of cells" and therefore have no rights?
The language does seem rather too brief, much more so than in the other states with similar efforts.
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