Colorado for Equal Rights
July 30th, 2008 at 06:43am Mark Noonan
Some have said that life issues won’t be important in Campaign ‘08 - that all we care about is how audaciously hopeful Obama makes us. Don’t count on it:
Colorado for Equal Rights, an organization backing a measure on the Colorado ballot that would define a person in the state’s Constitution as “any human being from the moment of fertilization,” has released a list of over 70 physicians and pharmacists from around the United States who agree that a person includes any human from the moment of conception.
“We are honored to have received these endorsements from such respected physicians,” stated Kristi Burton, head of Colorado for Equal Rights. “Science clearly proves that life begins at the time of fertilization. We are secure in the fact that we have science and reason on our side, and we are pleased to have the medical community supporting our efforts.”
“As support for Amendment 48 accumulates, we are very encouraged as we get closer to November’s election,” Burton said. “Every human life should be protected, and the endorsements we continue to receive prove that our easy to understand amendment is one that all Coloradans can support.”
The group needed to collect 76,000 signatures to put the amendment on the ballot in November and succeeded in doing so on May 31 with 103,000 signatures.
The defense of human life from the moment of conception to the natural end of life - that is what pro-life is all about; we’re all human beings here, good people, and if we can’t respect those who are entirely at our mercy, how are we then to really respect anyone, including our selves?
I know all the pro-choice arguments - some of my closets friends adhere to them, including some of my fellow Catholics (we’re working on that). But all of them ring hollow because, in the end, an abortion is the permanent disposition of a temporary condition. Pregnancy lasts for 9 months, while the agony of abortion - for the mother - lasts a lifetime. It is a false promise - a work of Hell, if there ever was one - to say that an abortion solves anything. To think that killing an unborn child is equal or even superior to giving birth to a child is anti-human in the extreme. It is a point of view which I might have understood at one time, but only because I was too ignorant to understand how monstrous a crime abortion is - these days, I just can’t fathom the pro-choice position…this bizarre idea that killing is a solution. It might have been a Final Solution, once upon a time, but one hopes we pass by such barbarities and move forward.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Life Issues
8 Comments
1. Colorado for Equal Rights&hellip | July 30th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
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2. js | July 30th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
seems kinda dry for a serious topic….liberals dont stand up so well in the face of the truth
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
William Cowper
3. Some Assembly Required | July 30th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
How many times are you going to go over this, Roe vs Wade will not be over-turned regardless of which candidate is in office. McCain may give you lip-service but nothing will be done about it. Shoot, he even stated he would let his daughter choose if she had to make such a monumental decision.
<i<”Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most - Ozzy Osbourne
4. js | July 30th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
when you make statements like you have that are not humanly possible to prove it only goes to show that you are a nutcase and a stooge…
you havent changed a bit…
5. Some Assembly Required | July 30th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
js, the proof is in the policy and government expansion that will be required if it is over-turned. Not to mention all the women that will be up in arms feeling the government has no business telling them what they can and cannot due with their bodies. If the woman is against abortion she will have the child, if she’s not, she won’t. As it stands it’s not harming society or modern culture. Right now it’s just a lot of people yelling about it, if it’s over-turned there will be no more yelling, it would quickly digress into fighting.
Look at it this way, if a librul were to ban all weapons and take them from peoples homes, what would be the result? I’m willing to bet the result would be similar to that if abortion was made illegal.
It’s simple logic, the issue is used to motivate the base and pander to voters. Nothing will be done because no congressman would last more then 2 years and no president more then 4. Over-turning it would effectively be political suicide. It’s kind of ironic really
6. kmg | July 30th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Mark,
If this passes (which is very unlikely):
1. What forms of birth control would automatically be outlawed?
2. Would all miscarriages have to be investigated as possible homicides?
3. Could a woman who drinks or smokes while pregnant, knowingly or unknowingly, be prosecuted if she miscarries?
7. js | July 30th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
you really are a simpleton SAR.
8. Some Assembly Required | July 31st, 2008 at 7:47 am
js, if I’m a simpleton you must be an ameba. Your entire argument is ‘but it’s murder’. Mine, along with various other posters in the past are thought out forward thinking responses. Then I guess thats a term bush supporters are unfamiliar with.
Take kmg’s post. You cannot answer those questions without heading into a very dangerous area. The irony is almost poetic, your all for a ‘culture of life’, to enforce this requires unthinkable laws ultimately leading to a ‘culture of death’ (considering murderers can be sentenced to death). Murder begets murder. What’s that saying, about an eye for an eye? Or two wrongs?