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Personhood Initiative Certified For Colorado Ballot
LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family and Culture Outpost ^ | March 29, 2010

Posted on 03/29/2010 12:11:58 PM PDT by topher

Monday March 29, 2010


Personhood Initiative Certified For Colorado Ballot

DENVER, Colorado, March 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Colorado Personhood Amendment’s signatures have been certified, and the Personhood Amendment will be on the Colorado ballot in November, declared Personhood Colorado on Friday.

Personhood Colorado sponsored the ballot initiative to amend the State Constitution recognizing the Personhood rights of all humans, from their biological beginning to their natural death. The amendment states: "the term 'person' shall apply to every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.”

On March 4, the Colorado Secretary of State disclosed that 15,690 of the 79,648 signatures submitted by Personhood Colorado were invalid. As allowed by Colorado law, volunteers then had 15 days to replace the invalid signatures with new, valid voter signatures. In response, Personhood Colorado volunteers collected 47,114 signatures, three times as many signatures as were required.

On Friday, March 26, the Colorado Secretary of State verified that the Personhood Amendment had submitted enough signatures to be on the November 26 ballot, citing that in the first submission, 60,357 of the 79,648 submitted signatures were valid, and that in the 15 day curing period, 35,527 of the 47,114 submitted signatures were found valid. Therefore, of the 126,762 submitted signatures, 95,884 were found to be valid voter signatures, surpassing the required number of 76,047 by nearly 20,000.

“We are very thankful for our volunteers who worked tirelessly to ensure that the Personhood Amendment is on the 2010 ballot,” stated Gualberto Garcia-Jones, co-sponsor of the Personhood Amendment. “We are counting on all of our supporters and many volunteers to vote Yes on the Personhood Amendment, Amendment 62, in November.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: abortion; colorado; personhood; prolife
Statistics on signatures for the initiative.

I did contact Louisiana Right to Life about this, as Louisiana is very Pro-life, and such an initiative, would, in my opinion, pass in Louisiana.

However, Louisiana Right to Life claims that the Supreme Court makeup is not favorable for a Roe v. Wade challenge (?)

1 posted on 03/29/2010 12:11:59 PM PDT by topher
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To: topher

Another positive step. Just have to keep pushing back against the darkness whenever/wherever possible.


2 posted on 03/29/2010 12:34:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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To: TigersEye
If you search the web, there is a LEGAL MEMO about the Personhood amendment.

This is by attorneys Bopp and Coleson.

There is a response to this memo by the Thomas More Law Center, which contains a discussion of the Georgia Human Life Amendment.

3 posted on 03/29/2010 12:54:24 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: TigersEye
Here is a link to the Thomas More Law Center PDF on the response Memo, which has information on the Georgia Human Life Amendment

Response to Bopp and Coleson Memo of August 2007

Note that this is a PDF and about 2 megabytes.

Below is a link to the Bopp and Coleson pro-life strategy memo.

Bopp and Coleson: Pro-Life Strategy Issues -- August 7, 2007

Remember, both of these are PDF's, in case your computer has trouble downloading them...

4 posted on 03/29/2010 1:01:34 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: topher

Thank you very much for researching and passing along that information. I will take a look and try to understand it.


5 posted on 03/29/2010 1:05:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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To: TigersEye
Bopp and Colson are basically saying with the Personhood Amendment that Justice Kennedy might not overturn Roe v. Wade.

On the other hand, the Thomas More Law Center believes that the Georgia Human Life Amendment might be a better approach...

I believe that is the short of it.

But reading these memos is something pro-lifers probably should do.

6 posted on 03/29/2010 1:26:20 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: topher

Over 40 states are pursuing Personhood efforts of some sort.

Jim Bopp has been the biggest obstacle to the effort to end abortion.
As the counsel for NRL - leaders of the pro-life industry - he has
done everything possible to undermine efforts for a total ban on
child killing.

The NRL strategy of regulating abortion out of existence has been
a failure for 40 years.

Time for some out of the box thinking!

Leslie Hanks
Co-sponsor Personhood CO 2010


7 posted on 03/29/2010 8:09:38 PM PDT by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
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