Amending the Constitution to Protect Human Fertilized Eggs
Wed Nov 28, 2007 at 01:43:14 AM PDT
What's next? I suppose one could argue that if the Constitution could be Amended to give personification to Corporations for a myriad of human rights and protections why not extend same rights for a human fertilized egg?
No-holds-barred abortion battle
'Personhood' amendment could ban some birth control, stem-cell research
It's known as the "Definition of a Person" in Colorado, the "Ultimate Human Life Amendment" in Mississippi, the "Paramount Right to Life Amendment" in Georgia and the "Personhood Amendment" in Michigan.
In each case, the measure would change the state constitution to define a fertilized egg as a person entitled to constitutional protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process. And in every case, it's part of a no-compromise anti-abortion strategy that has created a deep divide between those state groups that want a direct attack on Roe v. Wade and those that prefer National Right to Life's incremental approach.
But abortion-rights supporters and opponents agree that Colorado's "personhood" amendment would outlaw abortion and potentially have much broader effects.
This blows my mind, mostly because it comes from the fanatics of pro-life who are so hypocritical about how they so often treat people already alive and living on the planet.
Colorado Right to Life spokesman Bob Enyart said he thought it also could mean an end to embryonic stem-cell research. "The goal is to stop the killing of unborn children by reasserting the personhood of the unborn," he said.
But Kristi Burton, the 20- year-old head of Colorado for Equal Rights, the group behind the initiative, refused to speculate on what might happen.
"The goal is simply to define when life begins," she said this week after the State Supreme Court cleared the way for the measure by accepting the argument that it fit the definition of a one-issue initiative. "We'll see where it takes us."
Some of these self-appointed gods, in my humble opinion, have obviously never even thought about a person's soul, which is the part of our human existance that determines when we come and go, to and from this planet.
Year's ago I wrote a spiritual fantasy novel A Switch In Time that starts with a dyslexic angel (only God is perfect) sending two female souls to the wrong parents and wrong time era. My belief is that one's soul is who we really are and not the body part. Now, I don't presume to KNOW all things, but neither does anyone else. All I know is that some people need to just leave other people alone.
But others in our society want to control everything and every BODY. Why? Their ongoing 'we value Life' mantra while they support the death penalty, support the destruction of people who are not christian is so offensive.
If Colorado voters were to pass a "personhood" amendment, they would be doing something that Justice Blackmun himself refused to do: pinpoint the moment life begins.
"When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus," he wrote in Roe, "the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer."
I do know that there are true life believers who won't even kill an insect but they are not the group pushing for these kinds of laws. They know to live and let live.
I truly hope these initiatives are voted against.
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