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Montana Says No Way To CI-100

I'm tickled pink to have read this little tidbit in the news today.

Opponents of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban abortion by defining a fertilized human egg as a “person” announced Tuesday the measure has failed to gain enough support to qualify for the November ballot.

Constitutional Initiative 100 would have changed the constitution to define a “person” as a fertilized egg and conferred to them all the rights and responsibilities of citizens.


There is just something disturbing about a group that wants to confer all the rights of being a person to a fertilized egg and yet not grant personhood to the woman carrying said egg. It is a pretty good day for women in Montana to learn that only 21,280 people think they are less of a person than this.

fertilized egg


As many stated CI-100 would have done more than just preventing abortions. The door would have been swung open for banning birth control and would have brought innumerable issues for couples using in-vitro fertilization. To give full personhood to a small clump of cells would have been a huge step forward for removing personhood from the thinking, feeling, living beings known as women.
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1. June 28th 2008 @ 03:27. RubySoho Says:
To be perfectly honest Summer, I find it rather disturbing that there are 21, 280 people anywhere that think that an egg is a person.

Eggs are people. And women are incubators. Oh lordy, this whole thing really makes me feel ill. How is it possible that the world can still hate women so much?
2. June 28th 2008 @ 07:26. Summer Minor Says:
I agree that it is disturbing that so many people signed the petition at all. I was trying to be sarcastic about it, always hard to convey over the internet.
3. June 29th 2008 @ 08:56. Morgan Bell Says:
hey great picture!
and great news too . . . actual people are being abused and neglected every day, i dont know why pro-lifers are so obsessed with fertilised eggs . . . seems like a lack of proportion to fixate on one thing like that
4. June 29th 2008 @ 12:54. RubySoho Says:
Oh okay sorry, Summer. All the abortion talk that is floating around on Orble has just really put me on edge.

i just got back from an overnight trip away and i really thought I would be calmed down by now, but apparently not as I just went off at Ahmed on Morgan's post. Haha what a hornet's nest you have stirred up Morgan.

By the way, I did like this post and am glad the petition failed.
5. June 29th 2008 @ 14:23. Summer Minor Says:
It's ok. I think everyone's tempers are flared over this.

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