Summer MinorMontana Says No Way To CI-100
June 26th 2008 13:42
I'm tickled pink to have read this little tidbit in the news today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Comment by RubySoho
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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?
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Comment by Morgan Bell
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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
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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.
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