Sep 06 2008
The Most Strategic Ballot Line This Year
Colorado Voters Will Be Asked When ‘Personhood’ Begins – washingtonpost.com
A proposal to define a fertilized human egg as a person will land on Colorado’s ballot this November, marking the first time that the question of when life begins will go before voters anywhere in the nation.The Human Life Amendment, also known as the personhood amendment, says the words “person” or “persons” in the state constitution should “include any human being from the moment of fertilization.” If voters agreed, legal experts say, it would give fertilized eggs the same legal rights and protections to which people are entitled.
Colorado voters will have the opportunity to do what ought to have been done a long time ago, declare constitutionally the personhood of the unborn.
The Post article is filled with bias (I’ll admit mine; will they?) in terminology. The issue is clear, and the Colorado voters will be able to actually decide: is a human embryo a human being who deserves all the rights of any other human, or is it (legally speaking for God already determines the answer to this question) merely a mass of biological tissue with no rights at all?
God’s Word says that the child is knit together in the womb, and that these embryos are humans, bearing His image. If the voters agree this will be a strategic step towards overturning the legalized holocaust of the unborn.
Amendment 48 is a monstrous evil: it would do very real harm to very real people of Colorado by banning almost (if not all) abortion, outlawing the birth control pill, and banning most in vitro fertilization. It’s anti-life, by any rational standard.
For the details, see “Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Why It Matters That a Fertilized Egg Is Not a Person”, an issue paper by Ari Armstrong and myself, published by the Coalition for Secular Government . It is available at:
http://www.seculargovernment.us/docs/a48.pdf
Fertilized eggs are not persons! They have no right to life. To attempt to grant them rights would require violating the rights of real people.
Diana Hsieh
Founder, Coalition for Secular Government
http://www.seculargovernment.us
Diana:
I’m doubtful that you’re coming back, but if you happen to I’m responding to your comment with its own post today.
You are most certainly right in one thing: the effects of personhood of the unborn are far reaching. And they will smack in the face this culture of death. Abortion, through any means (even so-called emergency contraception) is murder.
But since you don’t think murder should be wrong, maybe some other secular government will decide that murdering people named Diana is just hunky dory. Without a standard by which we can all define good and evil, you cannot argue against someone saying you’re not a person any more than you can truly build an argument against these babies not being “real people.”
I will be writing more later this week on positive steps I want Christians to take, non-politically, to help those in crisis pregnancies to remove some of the temptations to abortion.
I wish you well personally, but your efforts will ultimately fail because God is not a God to be mocked, and His creation of you and others in your battle deserves our giving Him glory.
Oh, and as you’ll see in my post, secularism and humanism are just as religious as Christianity.
Thanks for visiting my blog.
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